Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 2 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 3 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 4 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 5 | Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day 's outing . |
| 6 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 7 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 8 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 9 | When Louis summoned , exceptionally , a third assembly in the same year , at Thionville , Pippin failed to appear ; and when he did turn up for Christmas at Aachen , there was a family row . |
| 10 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 11 | When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset . |
| 12 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 13 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |