Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 3 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 4 | England have been shown up for the lack of quality in their line-up , although Gooch 's illness here , Michael Atherton 's illness in Calcutta and the stupidity of leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test and Atherton on the second Test all contributed to an unexpectedly one-sided contest . |
| 5 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 6 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 7 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |
| 8 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites . |
| 10 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 11 | Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future . |
| 12 | ‘ No detailed programme has yet been drawn up for the production of the District Wide Plan . |
| 13 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 14 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 15 | However , the recommendations of its members have indicated that the way will be opened up for the abandonment of most restrictions . |
| 16 | or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied . |
| 17 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 18 | A 100MHz HyperSparc is now being talked up for the end of next year . |
| 19 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 21 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 23 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 24 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 25 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 26 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 27 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 28 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 29 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
| 30 | But real life , both human life and plant and animal life , is not set up for the benefit of spectators . |