Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 2 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 3 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 4 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 5 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 6 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 7 | Andrew Green , the present lord of the manor , and his wife had driven up for the day from Essex . |
| 8 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 9 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 10 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 11 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
| 12 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |