Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 2 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 3 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 4 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 6 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 7 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 8 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 9 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 10 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |
| 11 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 12 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 13 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |