Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 2 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 3 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 4 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 5 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 6 | She read the Catechism in bed at night , occasionally sighing ; she would turn towards Bernard and her long hair — she wore it up for work , half-down in the home , fully down in bed — would fall over her face , over her white shoulder . |
| 7 | Gave it up for ordination training at Salisbury . |
| 8 | In 1991 , the village pub was threatened with closure when the brewery put it up for sale . |
| 9 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 10 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 11 | Withdrawing one hand from behind her back , she held it up for inspection . |