Example sentences of "it up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've given it up for the moment , ’ he said . |
| 10 | As Evans-Pritchard succinctly sums it up for the Zande : ‘ Every misfortune supposes witchcraft , and every enmity suggests its author ’ . |
| 11 | Boil it up for the dogs . |
| 12 | We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners |
| 13 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |