Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up for the " 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 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 5 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 6 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 7 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 8 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 9 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |
| 12 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 13 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 14 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |