Example sentences of "up [adj] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early references give the names of Richard Longman , Robert Mitchell and John Mitchel who in 1493 gave up eleven shillings for a chalice . |
| 2 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 3 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 4 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 5 | ‘ Hello , Dave , ’ he said , ‘ 1 was just boiling up some water for a shave . ’ |
| 6 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 7 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |