Example sentences of "[vb past] up for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Boats pulled up for the deceptive winter , the restless thud of the sea beyond the outer wall threatening to break into their sanctuary . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough-based Marktrace International said yesterday that MPL was a separate company , set up for the Ghanaian project only . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |