Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 2 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 3 | Confidence in the government was further lowered by public accusations by Merbah 's predecessor as Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi ( who resigned from the FLN central committee on Oct. 16 ) , that President Chadli Bendjedid had known about a US$26,000,000 corruption scandal involving state contracts , which was currently subject to a parliamentary inquiry , and had covered up for senior ministers involved . |
| 4 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 5 | Then equally big lefts in rounds five and seven could not get rid of a man whose courage failed to make up for obvious shortcomings . |
| 6 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |