Example sentences of "up the [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 2 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 3 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |
| 4 | After all , a round in the mid-60s might well bring him well up the field for a charge on the final two days . |
| 5 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 6 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 7 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 8 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 9 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
| 10 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 11 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 12 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
| 13 | Nobody in Manchester is going to put up the rates for a power station in Corby . ’ |
| 14 | Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter . |
| 15 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 16 | Then you can boil up the carcass for a turkey soup or stock . |
| 17 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
| 18 | The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ . |