Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE famous Ritz hotel is up for grabs for a knock down Pounds 100m . |
| 2 | As my friend David Jessel has pointed out , even if 99 per cent of all criminal convictions are correct , that still leaves in a prison population of 40,000 some 400 who have no business being there ; and I can not imagine any experience more demoralizing than to be locked up for years for a crime one did n't commit . |
| 3 | This can also be said of many of the larger species of Cichlasoma which often end up as pets for a number of reasons . |
| 4 | Our very own Rising Sun , John Millar of the Daily Record , fresh from his series on the wild , well slightly angry west , caught up with Wesley for a lesson in absolute hipness , but first , let's see old Wes in action |
| 5 | Pertwee 's the only one who could put up with Hatton for a moment , but no one 's willing to come out with it . |
| 6 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 7 | Divide the children up into groups for a game and then tell them that you are going to form a marching band . |
| 8 | In January I ended up in bed for a month . |
| 9 | She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself . |
| 10 | This is quite a feat , for not even when a lunch is offered do my parliamentary colleagues turn up in droves for a morning seminar . |
| 11 | The third was the youngest , square-set , and of the three , looked most like an actor dressed up in costume for a part . |
| 12 | The thought that she was the one with a boyfriend with a car made her feel very important — one up on Paula for a change ! |
| 13 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 14 | Early estimates for council tax bills range from a bottom level of £301 for a house worth less than £40,000 up to £903 for a house valued at more than £320,000 . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 16 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 17 | On one occasion she planned to fly up to Scotland for a meeting about the children 's work . |
| 18 | Yeah no he was just saying that head office they 'll dictate to them like anybody else so he said I 've got to have erm the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything . |
| 19 | I have done hardly any work , except keep this Diary up to date for a week , which is something of a record for me ! |
| 20 | The nCube 2S will be priced as the current 2 series , while the existing range — which runs up to $2m for a maximum 8,000 processors — will be reduced by 35% . |
| 21 | Now frantic supporters who lost out are willing to pay up to £75 for a voucher they need to buy a ticket for the cup final on May 9 . |
| 22 | But interest payments were a healthy six times covered and the final dividend , payable on June 1 , inches ½p up to 13.4p for a total of 20p , 1.8 times covered . |
| 23 | In 1979 , the largest holiday operator , Thomsons , charged up to £145 for a week 's high season full board in Majorca — the most popular foreign holiday destination now and then . |
| 24 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 25 | so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year |
| 26 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
| 27 | A room is about £75 a night , up to £260 for a suite of four rooms . |
| 28 | It comes with 4Mb of RAM as standard , which in my books ought to be bumped up to 8Mb for a server . |
| 29 | The final Group One game , on June 17 , is against the host nation at 27,700 all-seated Stockholm , where the 5,321 England fans will also have to pay up to £43.50 for a ticket . |
| 30 | End up at Spatahori for a punch party — and a briefing on the regatta . |