Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 32 | This will give you plenty of vitamins and minerals , to build you up for the elimination diet . |
| 33 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've given it up for the moment , ’ he said . |
| 36 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 37 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 38 | Call your friends and see if they can put you up for the night . |
| 39 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 40 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 41 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 42 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 43 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 44 | As Evans-Pritchard succinctly sums it up for the Zande : ‘ Every misfortune supposes witchcraft , and every enmity suggests its author ’ . |
| 45 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 46 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 47 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 48 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 49 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 52 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 53 | Boil it up for the dogs . |
| 54 | We ca n't accept these conditions for our employees so sign 'em up for the G M B and fight for their rights . |
| 55 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 56 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |
| 57 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 58 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 59 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |