Example sentences of "[verb] up for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 2 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 3 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 4 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 6 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 7 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 8 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 9 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 10 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 11 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 12 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 13 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 14 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 15 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 16 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 17 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 20 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 21 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 22 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 23 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 24 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 25 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 26 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 27 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 28 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 29 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 30 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |