Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 2 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 3 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 4 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 5 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 6 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 7 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 8 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |