Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 4 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 5 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 6 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |