Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 2 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 3 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 6 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 7 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 8 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 9 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 12 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 13 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 14 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 15 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 16 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 17 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 18 | ‘ I watch everything I can because I feel this is a tie that could set us up for a good run in Europe , ’ added Creaney . |
| 19 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
| 20 | But at least we have trained the waitress to bring us three cups of coffee each for breakfast , as we need at least that to wake us up for an early morning start ! |
| 21 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 22 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 23 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 24 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 25 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |