Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 2 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 3 | One childless career woman described the scene when she discussed having a child and giving up work for a while . |
| 4 | CHARTBUSTERS Boyz II Men are giving up sex for a year to stay on top of the job . |
| 5 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 6 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |