Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 2 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 3 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 4 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 5 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 6 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |
| 7 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 8 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 9 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 12 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | If you 're worried about Chester 's , and you really think you could do something to help , a relaxing holiday should set you up for the fight ! ’ |
| 15 | Do n't I get any thanks for offering to put you up for the weekend ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 17 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 19 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 20 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 21 | This will give you plenty of vitamins and minerals , to build you up for the elimination diet . |
| 22 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 23 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've given it up for the moment , ’ he said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 27 | Call your friends and see if they can put you up for the night . |
| 28 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 29 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 30 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |