Example sentences of "[pers pn] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least you 're on the payroll , though , remember who put you up for that , eh ? |
| 2 | ‘ Are you up for all this ? ’ |
| 3 | Er they take you up for twenty minutes intensive and then drop it |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll write you up for some now . |
| 5 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 6 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 7 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 10 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 11 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 12 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 13 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 15 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 16 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 17 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 18 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 19 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 20 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 21 | I 'll write him up for that medication now . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 26 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 27 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 29 | Because you will know in advance when you need the cash , you can use a 90-day-notice account or even tie it up for five years for a better return . |
| 30 | This repulsive scene ( and play it up for all its worth ! ) requires that each adventure make a successful T test . |