Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 2 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 4 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 5 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 6 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 7 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 8 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 9 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 10 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 11 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 12 | " I 'll chop them up for kindling . " |
| 13 | Are you going to stand them up for me Tim ? |
| 14 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 15 | I thought she but I 'm trying to think what she phoned me up for . |
| 16 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 17 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 18 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 19 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 20 | I just worry , as usual , that I shall be mopping you up for months to come . ’ |
| 21 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 22 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 23 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 24 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 25 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 26 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 27 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 28 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 29 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 30 | They clear the remaining forest by fire , opening it up for their own agriculture , or to hand over to cattle ranchers . |