Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 2 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 3 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 4 | So in 1980 IBM came back to Mr Gates , then 25 , who quickly bought a rudimentary operating system from another young company , renamed it DOS , and fixed it up for IBM . |
| 5 | We have kept this fish in the office brackish tank for a number of years without breeding success , and Derek has undertaken to find out how to breed them and write it up for PFK . |