Example sentences of "up for a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
2 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
3 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
4 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
5 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
6 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
7 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
8 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |