Example sentences of "[verb] it up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you have n't done it up for years have you ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 4 | For all the kids care he could be Goofy , hamming it up for Mickey Mouse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I also have a green velvet hat , ’ she told him solemnly , holding it up for inspection . |
| 10 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 11 | So what 's wrong with puttin' it up for discussion ? ’ |
| 12 | I do n't want a complete shade change but would like to cheer it up for summer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Zeinab had set it up for Owen to meet her theatrical friends at their usual cafe and as she and Owen turned into the square , there they were , occupying their usual tables on the edge of the pavement . |
| 15 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 16 | So in 1980 IBM came back to Mr Gates , then 25 , who quickly bought a rudimentary operating system from another young company , renamed it DOS , and fixed it up for IBM . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 19 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 20 | Gave it up for ordination training at Salisbury . |
| 21 | In 1991 , the village pub was threatened with closure when the brewery put it up for sale . |
| 22 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 23 | We have kept this fish in the office brackish tank for a number of years without breeding success , and Derek has undertaken to find out how to breed them and write it up for PFK . |
| 24 | He summed it up for Tallis : |
| 25 | One or two more bold strokes of the pen could wrap it up for Kenny ! |
| 26 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |
| 27 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 28 | But then still runs it up for Christmas . |
| 29 | I must confess the moment er Stan Collimore set it up for Webb , I mean it 's a nice ball he does brilliant here Colin , checks the and shapes a nice little ball into Webby 's path and the one thing Webby 's still got he 's he 's got good feet . |
| 30 | Withdrawing one hand from behind her back , she held it up for inspection . |