Example sentences of "[vb past] up for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 2 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 3 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 6 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 7 | Morris turned up for the new campaign with a sensational 133 , the first 100 off 60 balls and the second 50 off only 16 , against Minor Counties champions Staffordshire in a pre-season testimonial match for Barnett . |
| 8 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 9 | ELTON JOHN and Axl Rose teamed up for a spectacular duet at the MTV awards in Los Angeles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They teamed up for an after-show celebration after Elton and rock star Eric Clapton thrilled fans at a huge outdoor concert in New York . |
| 13 | Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie . |
| 14 | On both occasions the Soviet Union made up for the extreme weakness of its client but , by providing the personnel to operate missile sites , it was consciously limiting the ways in which these missiles could be used against Israel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 17 | Boats pulled up for the deceptive winter , the restless thud of the sea beyond the outer wall threatening to break into their sanctuary . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough-based Marktrace International said yesterday that MPL was a separate company , set up for the Ghanaian project only . |
| 26 | SO&sub2 ; and soot are measured at 418 sites ( the descendants of thousands set up for the Clean Air Acts ) but , prior to criticism from the House of Commons Environment Committee in 1984 , knowledge of other pollutants was threadbare . |
| 27 | ‘ Your concern does you credit , and I 'll see to it you have a few things wrapped up for the poor woman when you go to see her . ’ |