Example sentences of "[vb past] up for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 2 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 3 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 4 | ELTON JOHN and Axl Rose teamed up for a spectacular duet at the MTV awards in Los Angeles . |
| 5 | After some years in theatrical revue and improvisational comedy in the Second City troupe in Chicago , he gained wide fame when he teamed up for a double act with Elaine May from 1957 to 1961 , before becoming a successful Broadway director . |
| 6 | Scotty Moore , DJ Fontana and Elvis 's original singers , The Jordanaires , teamed up for a unique tribute visit to the UK , originally to have been fronted by fellow Sun stablemate , Carl Perkins . |
| 7 | Ronnie Wilkie from Pest Control Dundee recently proved that cockroaches are anywhere and everywhere when he signed up for a sizeable job to rid an oil rig off the Aberdeen coast of them . |
| 8 | A census of birds sighted each day throughout the year , and kept up for a considerable number of years , is an invaluable source of information to all concerned with the monitoring of bird numbers . |
| 9 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 10 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 11 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 12 | Knowing the Scots were in town , the ‘ Moulin Rouge ’ warmed up for a busy night , and predictably Gallacher led a rabble of players through the hotel window to the forbidden pleasures of Parisian life . |
| 13 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 14 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |