Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 4 | Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 7 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 8 | Dressing up for a walk in the forest to find eggs |
| 9 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 10 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 11 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 12 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 13 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 14 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |