Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] up for the " 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 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 4 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 5 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 8 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |