Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 2 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 3 | FERRARI the fast fading Grand Prix giants , are revving up for a revival … with British know-how . |
| 4 | SISTERS Joyce Anderson and Jean Tebble are revving up for the start of one of the biggest fund-raising drives to be organised on Merseyside . |
| 5 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 6 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 7 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 8 | Just wait here , I 'm going up for a bath first , you can |
| 9 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 10 | But there 's still a feeling of unease amid police suggestions that someone from the village could be covering up for the killer . |
| 11 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 12 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 13 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 14 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 15 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 16 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 17 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 18 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 19 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 20 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 21 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 22 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |