Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 3 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 4 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 5 | It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help . |