Example sentences of "[verb] he up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 5 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 6 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 7 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 8 | Chop him up for firewood , |
| 9 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 11 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 12 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 15 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | Showed him up for what he really is . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 20 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 21 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 22 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 23 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 24 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 25 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 26 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 27 | Do you hope that Steve will come looking for me and then you can string him up for making love to her before you did ? |
| 28 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 29 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 30 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |