Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up for [art] [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 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 4 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 7 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 8 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 9 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 10 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |