Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 2 | because that , he wanted to go up for a medical which was a bit erm , unethical , but I do n't know whether it 's true it 's , you know it 's just what someone said |
| 3 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
| 4 | A casual worker who , without good reason , fails to turn up for an assignment which he has accepted is unlikely to be offered assignments in the future . |
| 5 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 6 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |