Example sentences of "[pron] up for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 5 | One up for American scholarship . |
| 6 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 7 | I 'll write him up for that medication now . ’ |
| 8 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 12 | However , if you do n't want to eat or drink it today , save it up for another occasion . |
| 13 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 14 | The prospect of setting yourself up for this job is far more daunting than the actual work , and once you have overcome the inertia of thinking it out and making a start , the results more than justify the effort . |
| 15 | I have not dressed myself up for some time . |
| 16 | Instead , she 's got Tommy and Iain dancing around her flat to UB40 at full volume , heavy on the bass , psyching themselves up for another night of action on the by-ways of Pinner Green . |