Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 2 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 3 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 6 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 7 | The headmaster himself had accused her of only joining up for the uniform . |
| 8 | With their male love of machines , he and his friends ( especially rounded up for the occasion ) spent hours tinkering with it , heads down in worship under the bonnet . |
| 9 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 10 | Only spoke up for the girl . ’ |
| 11 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 12 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 13 | If you live too far away to drive up for the day why not go for an extended weekend ? |
| 14 | Fresh greenskins were already forming up for the attack , spear-wielding infantry and archers among them , and towards the rear two huge Trolls shambled slowly through a sea of frolicking Snotlings . |
| 15 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 16 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 17 | Anglers from the St Helens and Newton-le-Willows areas are already signed up for the waterfront beat . |
| 18 | Andrew Martin and Carl Cartwright are already lined up for the trip . |
| 19 | World championships in several sports are already lined up for the Arena , as well as national and local sports events to drawn sports fans from all over Britain . |
| 20 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 21 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 22 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 23 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 24 | So now he was at a disadvantage , which angered him , and he lost sight of the gratitude he usually summoned up for the stepfather who had spent much of his life obliging his adopted son 's ambition for parents with a big house and a dashing car . |
| 25 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 26 | This affluence was made possible not only by higher wages ( in real terms ) but because new mass markets in non-essential goods were also opened up for the population at large . |
| 27 | Because the trust was originally set up for the purposes of mitigating inheritance tax the trust may come within the provisions of ss739 and 740 with the exemption mentioned in s741 not being available . |
| 28 | ( Derek heartily spoke up for the bitter they pulled , too . ) |
| 29 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 30 | Willi frequently turned up for the sessions where Therese was working with Luiza , Freddi and Alfred . |