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Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1	The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can .
2	Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment .
3	I probably wo n't catch up with him for an hour or more , but when I do , people will be astounded to learn his identity . ’
4	A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard .
5	And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck .
6	Perhaps they would feel differently if , instead of an average order of ten or twenty coffins , one of the superstores came up with one for a thousand .
7	Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded .
8	If your army includes sixteen or more Snotling bases then the possible number of units goes up by one for every extra five bases .
9	Lewis knew very well he should not do this , that he was sucking up to someone for the sake of inheriting his property .
10	She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything .
11	She 's got to put up with you for the next six months or more ! ’
12	‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job .
13	Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’
14	I looked up at her for a moment .
15	( At this point , Meursault looked up at her for a moment , seemed to appraise her , then back down to his hands , and commented , ‘ With such good French , there 's a man in the story . ’
16	I looked up at him for a second , then smiled .
17	Jarvis put up with it for a moment or two .
18	Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till .
19	There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now .
20	After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp .
21	After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp .
22	You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’
23	It 's been creeping up on me for a while .
24	But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you .