Example sentences of "[pron] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 2 | Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider . |
| 3 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 4 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 5 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 6 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 7 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 8 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 10 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 11 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 12 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 13 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 14 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 15 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 17 | One up for the Phyllosan * set |
| 18 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 19 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 20 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 21 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 22 | ‘ So you can tap her up for a few quid petrol money , eh ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 29 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 30 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |