Example sentences of "[pers pn] up for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday .
2 Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow .
3 Do n't I get any thanks for offering to put you up for the weekend ? ’
4 ‘ Are you up for the weekend ? ’ he asked .
5 This will give you plenty of vitamins and minerals , to build you up for the elimination diet .
6 Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’
7 If you 're worried about Chester 's , and you really think you could do something to help , a relaxing holiday should set you up for the fight ! ’
8 Call your friends and see if they can put you up for the night .
9 ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season
15 Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy .
16 Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company .
17 The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair .
18 It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night .
19 The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge !
20 Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego .
21 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 . ’
22 And that 's me up for the day .
23 you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did .
24 To soften me up for the kill ?
25 They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’
26 George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’
27 ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said .
28 Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday .
29 My dad , well in fact , we , we were laughing at my dad because we said , we said , it shut her up for a bit !
30 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 ? ’
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