Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 2 | So she 's saving them up for a |
| 3 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 4 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 5 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 6 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 7 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 10 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 13 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 14 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 15 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 16 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 17 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |