Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 3 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |
| 4 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 5 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |