Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 2 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 3 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 4 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 5 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |