Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 2 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 3 | At least you 're on the payroll , though , remember who put you up for that , eh ? |
| 4 | for a kick off anyway , you held us up for three , five months with drawings being late ! |
| 5 | ‘ We kept it up for ten days before Passchendaele , ’ Finlayson said . |
| 6 | Er they take you up for twenty minutes intensive and then drop it |
| 7 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 8 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |