Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 4 | I 'm sticking up for the little bless him . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 6 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 7 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 8 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
| 10 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 11 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 12 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 13 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 14 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 15 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 16 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 17 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 18 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 19 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
| 20 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 21 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 22 | It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help . |
| 23 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 24 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |