Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He was saving it up for a rainy day .
3 We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’
4 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 .
5 And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter .
6 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 .
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