Example sentences of "[verb] up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at the ground opening up for Randy Sherwood , ’ said Fatty Harris . |
| 3 | Highlights elsewhere include Bad Brains ( with new singer ) opening up for dc Basehead and Consolidated at the Marquee , plus a menagerie of talents such as Spectrum , The Lunachicks , Pooh Sticks , Ween , Seaweed and The Belltower doing their various weird things around town . |
| 4 | In addition , allowance is made for deferment of possession , postponement of the work , the appointment of a clerk of works , opening up for inspection , and tests , and there is a much wider determination clause . |
| 5 | A different future is now opening up for Father Martin Flatman following yesterday 's vote at the synod to ordain women as priests . |
| 6 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 7 | Thatcher , Archer and Stallone lined up for BBC 's Wogan shows . |
| 8 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 9 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 10 | Blackburn cracked under the pressure , as Kerslake and Jones lined up for shots and David Mitchell cleaned up . |
| 11 | She believes Jack was probably rounded up off the moors by a dealer who intended to sell him to be fattened up for slaughter.He has now joined hundreds of other animals at the centre who have been rescued . |
| 12 | ‘ Cheer up for Chatham , Dover 's in sight . ’ |
| 13 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 14 | Greer gearing up for champion status |
| 15 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 16 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 17 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 18 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 19 | Clarissa would have liked to stand up for Charles , but it came out as nothing more positive than ‘ Oh ’ . |
| 20 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 21 | As a result there are now Government , as well as private consumer organizations , whose purpose is to stand up for consumers ' rights . |
| 22 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 23 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on , hurry up for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 26 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 27 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 28 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 29 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 30 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |