Example sentences of "[verb] up for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 2 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 3 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
| 4 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 5 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |