Example sentences of "[verb] up for [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits !
2 At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned .
3 It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’
4 Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries .
5 Eddie Owen has signed up for the 1991 season with the Japanese and will sail aboard the 50-footer Will at the Key West and Miami 50ft regattas as tactician for Terry Neilson .
6 More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester .
7 Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat .
8 But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction .
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