Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] 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 Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground .
3 Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year .
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 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version .
10 It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version .
11 Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August .
12 It is a sick government that is proud of the fact that it 's not signed up for a Social Chapter .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
15 Are educational establishments really geared up for the European challenge , and do our current measures go far enough ?
16 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 .
17 The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent , and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch .
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