Example sentences of "[pers pn] up for the [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 | Do n't I get any thanks for offering to put you up for the weekend ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Are you up for the weekend ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | This will give you plenty of vitamins and minerals , to build you up for the elimination diet . |
| 5 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | Call your friends and see if they can put you up for the night . |
| 8 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 11 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And that 's me up for the day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 19 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 20 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 23 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 24 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 25 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 30 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |