Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 2 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 3 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 4 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 5 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 6 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 7 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 8 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 9 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 10 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 11 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 12 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 13 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 14 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 15 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 16 | If it 's something that needs doing every day , keep it up for a week . |
| 17 | To keep us all happy and friendly and wanting to work together , I 'd split us up for a while . ’ |
| 18 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 19 | Maybe it would shut him up for a while . |
| 20 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |
| 21 | My dad , well in fact , we , we were laughing at my dad because we said , we said , it shut her up for a bit ! |
| 22 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 23 | Some exciting advice — relayed by Andrew from a knowing uncle in the City — had jacked it up for a time , before an even bigger hole was left gaping by the failure of that magical investment . |
| 24 | Anyway , if there 's no visa I 'm gon na live it up for a couple of days , then put me foot down and not take it off till I get to Gib . |
| 25 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 26 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 27 | The Thelma & Louise star , then a sales assistant , impressed a talent spotter who snapped her up for a stage role . |
| 28 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |