Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 2 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 3 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 4 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 7 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |
| 10 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 11 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 12 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 13 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 14 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 15 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 17 | We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners |
| 18 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 19 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 20 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 21 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 22 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 23 | If you 're worried about Chester 's , and you really think you could do something to help , a relaxing holiday should set you up for the fight ! ’ |
| 24 | Do n't I get any thanks for offering to put you up for the weekend ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 26 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 27 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 28 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 30 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |