Example sentences of "them up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 2 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 3 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 4 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 5 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |