Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 2 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 3 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 4 | Aschmann in his house , all dressed up for a festive occasion , the most glamorous lady in the theatre , was going to make it a party like no other . |
| 5 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 6 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 7 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 8 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 9 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 10 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 11 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 12 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 13 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 14 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 15 | Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August . |
| 16 | It is a sick government that is proud of the fact that it 's not signed up for a Social Chapter . |
| 17 | Students should expect the Government to meet living costs , but not to cough up for the extra beer and nightclubbing which Richard regards as an important part of student life . |
| 18 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 19 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 20 | Are educational establishments really geared up for the European challenge , and do our current measures go far enough ? |
| 21 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
| 22 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 23 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I was caught and summoned to the Latin master , who said to me , ’ Walker , you did n't turn up for the Latin exam . ’ |
| 26 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 27 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 28 | The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent , and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 29 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 30 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |