Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 2 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 4 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 5 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 6 | Andrew Green , the present lord of the manor , and his wife had driven up for the day from Essex . |
| 7 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 8 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
| 9 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |