Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 2 | Then equally big lefts in rounds five and seven could not get rid of a man whose courage failed to make up for obvious shortcomings . |
| 3 | Adrian Littlejohn had given United side a 61st minute lead to make up for two earlier misses from Brian Deane as the home side took a grip on the game . |
| 4 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 5 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 6 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 7 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 8 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |