Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If you 're not careful you end up going for those long healthy walks you always said you hated . ’
2 In 1878 she gave up teaching for two years , following a breakdown in health .
3 A sadness that could make her give up acting for good .
4 Then he turned up playing for Real Madrid .
5 He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months .
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