Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 2 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 3 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 4 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 5 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 6 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 7 | So she 's saving them up for a |
| 8 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 9 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 10 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 11 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 12 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 13 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 14 | Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 19 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 20 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 21 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 22 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 27 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 28 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 29 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 30 | He intended to mark it up for a hundred . |