Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 2 | ARSENAL face a trial by TV at Liverpool tomorrow with keeper David Seaman insisting : ‘ We 're really fired up for this one . ’ |
| 3 | We 're too grown up for that … " |
| 4 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 5 | Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails . |
| 6 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 7 | COLIN WALSH , already the subject of one Trivial Pursuit question , is probably lined up for another . |
| 8 | The land is then tied up for another generation . |
| 9 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |
| 10 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 11 | Helen ( 20 ) was yesterday locked up for seven days for what the judge described as a ‘ nasty campaign of noise and harassment ’ . |
| 12 | Stoke actually hit the back of the net in the 59th minute , but Kevin Russell was controversially pulled up for off-side . |
| 13 | ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night . |