Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 2 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 3 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 4 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 5 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 6 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 7 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 8 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 9 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |
| 10 | My dad , well in fact , we , we were laughing at my dad because we said , we said , it shut her up for a bit ! |
| 11 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 14 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 15 | The Thelma & Louise star , then a sales assistant , impressed a talent spotter who snapped her up for a stage role . |
| 16 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 20 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |