Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] 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 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 4 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 5 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 6 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 7 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |