Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 4 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 5 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |