Example sentences of "[verb] up for [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 2 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 3 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 4 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
| 5 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |
| 6 | because that , he wanted to go up for a medical which was a bit erm , unethical , but I do n't know whether it 's true it 's , you know it 's just what someone said |
| 7 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 8 | Cos I 've got ta make up for the sleep I lost erm yesterday . |
| 9 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
| 10 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 11 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 12 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
| 13 | ‘ Sir , ’ they say , ‘ thank God there is someone … restored my faith in human nature … performed a signal service … struck a blow for common sense and ordinary human decency … exposed the hypocrisy of those who for our sins are set in authority over us … expressed what the vast majority of people fed … spoken up for the minority whose views are never taken into account … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ . |
| 15 | A casual worker who , without good reason , fails to turn up for an assignment which he has accepted is unlikely to be offered assignments in the future . |
| 16 | While I go up for a bath you can take stock of the supplies I brought . ’ |
| 17 | ( Derek heartily spoke up for the bitter they pulled , too . ) |
| 18 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 19 | So now he was at a disadvantage , which angered him , and he lost sight of the gratitude he usually summoned up for the stepfather who had spent much of his life obliging his adopted son 's ambition for parents with a big house and a dashing car . |
| 20 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 21 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 22 | that makes up for the time you , then doing the |