Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] up for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . "
2 Thinks she 'll come up for a break .
3 That light rain will soon clear away tomorrow morning and it 'll brighten up for a time .
4 Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector .
5 The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by .
6 But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood .
7 Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script .
8 ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’
9 You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace .
10 If one wished to do so , one could sign up for the directive while keeping the 1908 legislation in force .
11 The incident must have shocked them , so logically they 'd rest up for the night . ’
12 Anthony left instructions that you could get up for a couple of hours if you felt up to it .
13 When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty .
14 I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations .
15 I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge …
16 ‘ I think perhaps the bike will make up for the Brownies , ’ Daddy confided to Mummy .
17 Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’
18 Nothing , according to Slater , will make up for the fact that Alpha is three years late to market .
19 AT LONG last we have a newspaper that will speak up for a referendum on Maastricht .
20 The event , which is set for Sunday May 6th has extra significance this year , as it coincides with the 20th anniversary of the United States ' twentieth tactical fighter wing being based in Oxfordshire , and master sergeant Bill Fonten is predicting even more crowds will turn up for the day when the U S base throws open its doors .
21 Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits .
22 But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie .
23 Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level .
24 This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole .
25 You can go up for the day .
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