Example sentences of "[verb] him up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chop him up for firewood , |
| 2 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 3 | People call him up for art advice from all over the world . |
| 4 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 5 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |