Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 2 | Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game . |
| 3 | The Boards preferred the wholesale development of rural districts ( rather than piecemeal individual connections ) since this reduced their costs , and they were generally able to use public meetings and written publicity to bring collective pressure on all potential consumers in a village to sign up for a supply , thus making comprehensive zoned development possible . |
| 4 | Huntworth , Pipe 's only other runner at the meeting , provided Scudamore with his 71st success of the season when making all the running in the Happy Eater Restaurant Handicap Chase to make up for a string of disappointments . |
| 5 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
| 6 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 7 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 8 | With the sea-routes open again trade picked up for a while . |
| 9 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 10 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
| 11 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 12 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 13 | We get the whole thing seized up for an hour and a half in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening . |
| 14 | BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips . |
| 15 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
| 16 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 17 | Other guaranteed income bonds are paying an average of around 5 per cent on £5,000 left tied up for a year . |
| 18 | Two sections of the middle class girded up for a fight ; the rising mechanics and practical men of industry versus the established professional men of science and culture . |