Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [noun] for a " in BNC.

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1 A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay .
2 Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 .
3 Lee Doherty set up Johnston for a right-wing cross and Gorman ghosted between two Bangor defenders to keep up his record of scoring in every round .
4 Meanwhile the SPD kept up pressure for a policy of ‘ co-existence ’ with East Germany .
5 Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union .
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