Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 2 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 3 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 4 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 5 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 6 | Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class . |
| 7 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 8 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |
| 10 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 11 | The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent , and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 12 | It is a sick government that is proud of the fact that it 's not signed up for a Social Chapter . |
| 13 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 14 | FORMER Northern Ireland international star Ian Stewart is being lined up for a dramatic comeback with Glentoran . |
| 15 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 16 | Comparing notes with an airship enthusiast the other day , I learned that the Falklands campaign might bring the airship back into favour because it can be sent up for a good look at the surroundings , especially at sea . |
| 17 | All dressed up for a good cause |
| 18 | Aschmann in his house , all dressed up for a festive occasion , the most glamorous lady in the theatre , was going to make it a party like no other . |
| 19 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |