Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [to-vb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 2 | After the last couple of times , she 's not going to turn up for anything that has my name attached to it . |
| 3 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 4 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 5 | She had been gone nearly two hours and Sara decided that she was not going to walt up for her . |
| 6 | One was that , since she was on a fool 's errand anyway , she was n't going to dress up for it . |
| 7 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |