Example sentences of "we [vb past] up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 2 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 3 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 4 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 5 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |