Example sentences of "[noun pl] up for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 2 | Boxing : Sky lines up for a classic TV fight : Neil Wilson on the big battle of the small screen and growing threat of the extra terrestrial to the conventional channels : ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel .. |
| 3 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
| 4 | Indeed , he and his mates had driven to a house in East Belfast straight from the fracas , to try and tee some pals up for a quick retaliation . |
| 5 | There were election posters up for the mayoral race . |
| 6 | The entertainments manager wants to hear Frank sing and gears up for a rip-roaring session , at which the hapless hero launches into ‘ Early One Morning ’ — echoes of the audition Crawford did as a child for Benjamin Britten 's production of The Turn of the Screw . |
| 7 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |