Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future . |
| 4 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 5 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 6 | However , the recommendations of its members have indicated that the way will be opened up for the abandonment of most restrictions . |
| 7 | At a frank meeting with the above , at which this community 's concerns were forcefully put , it was agreed that work would halt during our community festival and that the area would be cleaned up for the festival . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 9 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 10 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 11 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 12 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 13 | The latest speakers to be firmed up for the conference are David Pascall , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , who will speak at the general assembly session on The New Generation — A Strategy for Reading , and Simon Lang of the Henley Centre for Forecasting , who will be a speaker at the general assembly on The Future of the Book . |
| 14 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 15 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 16 | And he stressed it was unlikely an ‘ entire pattern of stability ’ could be set up for every operation . |
| 17 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 18 | There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket . |
| 19 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 20 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 21 | But there 's still a feeling of unease amid police suggestions that someone from the village could be covering up for the killer . |