Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 4 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 7 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 8 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 9 | They teamed up for an after-show celebration after Elton and rock star Eric Clapton thrilled fans at a huge outdoor concert in New York . |
| 10 | Oxford 's Yinka Idowa continues her run up for the forthcoming outdoor season , this time indoors , jumping for Great Britain in the Pearl Assurance games in Glasgow . |
| 11 | On March 26th in Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital , they signed up for a four-nation Southern Cone Common Market by the end of 1994 . |
| 12 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 13 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 14 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 15 | The confidential reports , leaked by the unions , were compiled by 15 internal ‘ taskforces ’ charged with considering the BBC 's prospects as it gears up for the public debate over renewing its royal charter in 1996 . |
| 16 | After some years in theatrical revue and improvisational comedy in the Second City troupe in Chicago , he gained wide fame when he teamed up for a double act with Elaine May from 1957 to 1961 , before becoming a successful Broadway director . |
| 17 | He signed up for a ten-week ‘ twilight ’ course in order to ‘ remedy this deficiency ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 20 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 21 | But when it comes up for the real audit , what job , is it going to encourage jobs that are audited . |