Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 3 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 4 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 5 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 6 | Dave Morpfee again impressed as he bagged 3–33 to set up Bangor for a response of 111–5 , Hefin Lewis , Andy Savage and John Parry all scoring 23 as Ruthin 's John James pocketed 4–29 . |
| 7 | On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights . |
| 8 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 9 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 10 | Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 . |
| 11 | One childless career woman described the scene when she discussed having a child and giving up work for a while . |
| 12 | CHARTBUSTERS Boyz II Men are giving up sex for a year to stay on top of the job . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the SPD kept up pressure for a policy of ‘ co-existence ’ with East Germany . |
| 14 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 15 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 16 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 17 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
| 18 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 19 | I had an ultimatum from Great-gran : if I take up proceedings for a divorce , then I go out of here , but dear Andrew stays . ’ |
| 20 | He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle . |