Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 2 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 3 | " I 'll chop them up for kindling . " |
| 4 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 5 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 6 | Chop him up for firewood , |
| 7 | Miss Jeanette told how Nichol had scratches on his face , neck and lip when he arrived to pick her up for work . |
| 8 | He specialises in the period between 1500 and 1675 and is also keen on art : last year he bought a Van Dyck from Althorp when the Spencers put it up for sale . |
| 9 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 10 | and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog |
| 11 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 12 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 13 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 14 | wrap them up for Christmas . |
| 15 | If you have got any sense , a lump sum of 400k can easily set you up for life . |
| 16 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 18 | ‘ I also have a green velvet hat , ’ she told him solemnly , holding it up for inspection . |
| 19 | So what 's wrong with puttin' it up for discussion ? ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want a complete shade change but would like to cheer it up for summer . |
| 21 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 22 | So that was the attitude hey , but erm they 'll have me up for libel here . |
| 23 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 24 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 25 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 26 | And I 'll need somebody to wake me up for work tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | Cos Steve always had to wake me up for work |
| 28 | Dress them up for Christmas ! |
| 29 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 30 | She read the Catechism in bed at night , occasionally sighing ; she would turn towards Bernard and her long hair — she wore it up for work , half-down in the home , fully down in bed — would fall over her face , over her white shoulder . |