Example sentences of "up for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 32 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 33 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 34 | She finally arrived some twenty minutes later looking so cold and miserable that Mary Ann ordered her straight up for a bath , before she caught her ‘ death ’ . |
| 35 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 36 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 37 | Admittedly Richard rode four winners too , but after poor Thetford Forest 's fatal fall had given Grand National Day a tragic finale in the Janneau Mersey Novice Hurdle , his battered rider was advised by the Jockey Club 's doctor , Rodney O'Donnell , to rest up for a week . |
| 38 | Britain 's oldest and biggest investment trust invited the lucky investor , Fiona Saunders , and fiance Graham Grant , up for a day in London from their home on the Isle of Wight . |
| 39 | SUSAN DEVOY , seven times champion and top seed , and Sue Wright , the English girl who ended the New Zealander 's run last year , are lined up for a revenge meeting in the quarter-finals of the Hi-Tec British Open Championships . |
| 40 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 41 | Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider . |
| 42 | Food and Drink : Roll up for a saucy lamb |
| 43 | Food and Drink : Roll up for a saucy lamb |
| 44 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 45 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 46 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 47 | It would be so easy just to give up for a while . |
| 48 | With the sea-routes open again trade picked up for a while . |
| 49 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 50 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 51 | Like a miniature adult , his head bows slightly and his small hand comes up for a firm adult shake . |
| 52 | Dressing up for a walk in the forest to find eggs |
| 53 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 54 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 55 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 56 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 57 | Then I was up for a second — and the next wave hit me . ’ |
| 58 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 59 | Anyway , if there 's no visa I 'm gon na live it up for a couple of days , then put me foot down and not take it off till I get to Gib . |
| 60 | Bruce Mackenzie was six feet four and that 's a long way up for a two-year-old . |