Example sentences of "[pron] sign up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life .
2 When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK .
3 ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said .
4 The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ .
5 Samsung , which signed up with HP three years ago , is a member of the HP PA-RISC supporters club PRO — the Precision RISC Organisation .
6 The Leeds Permanent Building Society , for example , pays £5 to one of three charities for each customer who signs up for a Leeds Visa affinity card .
7 She signed up with her local college for a typing course , and later she taught herself Braille .
8 She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady .
9 With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 .
10 Is that what you signed up for ?
11 You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) .
12 A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform .
13 The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera .
14 When you sign up for a savings scheme check the clauses for giving notice .
15 So you sign up with one of the many armed and mobile security patrols that operate in the white suburbs .
16 If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly .
17 There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public .
18 She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery .
19 If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party .
20 We signed up for treatment with him when Aisling was about three and made ten trips to Geneva .
21 Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice .
22 On March 26th in Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital , they signed up for a four-nation Southern Cone Common Market by the end of 1994 .
23 They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year .
24 We 'll let them know the date we 're going to start , and offer incentives if they sign up before that deadline .
25 He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore .
26 Six of those victims were claimed during the match against Australia four years ago , shortly before he signed up with Mike Gatting 's ‘ rebels ’ and sentenced himself to a ban which was only lifted last autumn .
27 He signed up for a ten-week ‘ twilight ’ course in order to ‘ remedy this deficiency ’ .
28 Ronnie Wilkie from Pest Control Dundee recently proved that cockroaches are anywhere and everywhere when he signed up for a sizeable job to rid an oil rig off the Aberdeen coast of them .
29 Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course .
30 After passing out top of his class he signed up for his National Service and travelled around Europe , first with the King 's Dragoon Guards and then as an officer in the Catering Corps .
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