Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] up 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 | 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 | So she 's saving them up for a |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
10 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |