Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
2 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |
3 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
4 | Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game . |
5 | The Boards preferred the wholesale development of rural districts ( rather than piecemeal individual connections ) since this reduced their costs , and they were generally able to use public meetings and written publicity to bring collective pressure on all potential consumers in a village to sign up for a supply , thus making comprehensive zoned development possible . |
6 | Huntworth , Pipe 's only other runner at the meeting , provided Scudamore with his 71st success of the season when making all the running in the Happy Eater Restaurant Handicap Chase to make up for a string of disappointments . |
7 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
8 | Eager Owls fired up for a fightback |
9 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
10 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
11 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
12 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
13 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
14 | Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged . |
15 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
16 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
17 | With the sea-routes open again trade picked up for a while . |
18 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
19 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
20 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
21 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
22 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
23 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
24 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
25 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
26 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
27 | BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips . |
28 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
29 | Belfast limbering up for a fitness challenge hat-trick |
30 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |