Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 2 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 3 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 4 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 5 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 6 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 7 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 8 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 9 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 10 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |