Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 2 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 3 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 4 | The tank has been up and running for eight months : pH is 7.8 , with 15°GH and 12°KH . |
| 5 | I have a 48″ × 17″ × 16″ aquarium which has been up and running for six months . |
| 6 | It has been up and running for 18 months and was beta tested last summer by Japanese engineers from NEC Corp that built an I-Tron interface to it . |
| 7 | Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years . |
| 8 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |
| 9 | A JUDGE apologised yesterday to a shoplifter who was locked up and forgotten for nine months . |