Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 3 | While I go up for a bath you can take stock of the supplies I brought . ’ |
| 4 | I went up for a weekend . |
| 5 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 6 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 7 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 8 | Can I come up for a moment ? ’ |
| 9 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 10 | Why , you going up for a Chinese ? |
| 11 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 12 | Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse . |
| 13 | why do n't you shut up for a moment |
| 14 | ‘ They just collapse , ’ he said , leaning against his winning pumpkin , which looked like something run up for a stage set . |
| 15 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 16 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 17 | He glanced up for a moment towards the senator and Jacques Devraux . |
| 18 | but when he stumped up for a brandy and soda |
| 19 | After that it picked up for a while , and we looked quite sharp again . |