Example sentences of "up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 32 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 33 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 34 | Simm-Lewis was the firm that cut ‘ Carlisle ’ up for scrap . |
| 35 | Clearly , the situation warrants further follow up for cancer morbidity in this cohort . |
| 36 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 37 | has drawn up for sign language is this sort of flow chart er , with dates and things working backwards from the event , saying you know we need this by two weeks beforehand we need it back |
| 38 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 39 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 40 | The title set the song up for criticism . |
| 41 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 42 | His job is lined up for TV commentator Tony Lewis , another ex-England skipper . |
| 43 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 44 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 45 | Iain Walker became well-known in climbing circles for accompanying the 1988 Bonington Menlungste expedition , which was dressed up for sponsorship purposes as a yeti hunt . |
| 46 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 47 | One microcomputer is set up for word processing and can be used by pupils at any time , another is used as a Prestel terminal and the third is available for the use of a variety of CAL programs . |
| 48 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 49 | I came up for air . |
| 50 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 51 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 52 | I found myself working twelve to fourteen hours a day , barely coming up for air , and looking forward to finishing the book so that life could begin again — rather than enjoying the day-by-day process of writing , and living life to the full . |
| 53 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 54 | ‘ Soon be able to come up for air . ’ |
| 55 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 56 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 57 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 58 | It is the voice of the disillusioned and disgruntled George Bowling — ‘ nerves all worn to bits , empty places in our bones where the marrow ought to be ’ — in Orwell 's pre-war novel Coming Up for Air . |
| 59 | A twisted tree reached up for air , |
| 60 | Jump up for air ! |