Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead .
2 We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’
3 Boats from Bodrum quayside do the same thing , though it 's difficult to tell if you 're letting yourself in for a one way job , or a round trip including a meal at some distant restaurant !
4 You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up
5 They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’
6 I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it .
7 and she 's been letting me off for the keep .
8 I 'm breaking them in for a horse .
9 But in practice , hey , be careful , you know , you could be letting yourself in for a bit of trouble , if you start recommending the equity fund for Healthmaster or something .
10 Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side .
11 George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’
12 Said all you got ta do is make it out for a
13 Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy .
14 So she 's saving them up for a
15 The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week .
16 what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a
17 ‘ The least you could do is invite me in for a coffee . ’
18 The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh .
19 German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west .
20 I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years !
21 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
22 He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests .
23 He was saving it up for a rainy day .
24 Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks .
25 And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said .
26 It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers .
27 No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination .
28 All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was .
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