Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 2 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 4 | However , if you do n't want to eat or drink it today , save it up for another occasion . |
| 5 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 6 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 7 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 8 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 9 | I 'll write him up for that medication now . ’ |
| 10 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |