Example sentences of "[verb] him up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 4 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 5 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 12 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 15 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 16 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 17 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 18 | Maybe it would shut him up for a while . |
| 19 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |
| 20 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 21 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 22 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 24 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 25 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 26 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |