Example sentences of "[verb] up [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 2 | Aye there some as come up travelling for seeds and for manure . |
| 3 | It is realized that some teachers have had to temporarily give up teaching for various reasons and the longer one is out of teaching the harder it is to build up confidence to teach again . |
| 4 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 5 | In the meantime , Henley had become a successful club recognised everywhere as one of the friendliest — where a chap can be assured of a game at weekends by simply turning up looking for one ; a Club with a pretty , well kept , interesting course ; a 19th hole where there is good refreshment and some comfortable chairs ; an excellent Professional 's shop and a social and golfing calendar second to none and the envy of most . |
| 6 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 7 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 8 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 9 | Then he turned up playing for Real Madrid . |
| 10 | Will Serafin show his independence of mind and his refusal to be controlled by his Civil Servants and reject them all , item by item , so that he ends up discovering for himself the colleagues , procedures and methods that Summerchild has already selected for him ? |
| 11 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 12 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 13 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 14 | Unix System Labs , which is n't even a party to the action , has been subpoea 'd by the Open Software Foundation in its attempt to ward off the now-famous $100m antitrust suit lodged against it by Addamax Inc that Sun Microsystems Inc could wind up paying for ( UX Nos 404 , 331 ) . |
| 15 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 16 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 17 | I have therefore given up looking for someone . ’ |
| 18 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 19 | The workforce has fallen by 700,000 as people have retired or given up looking for jobs , but unemployment has risen by roughly 1.3 million , the EPI reports . |
| 20 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 21 | Are you prepared to give up smoking for instance , or to cut down on the amount of caffeine , alcohol , sugar and junk-food you may consume ? |
| 22 | The important decision is never to give up working for each other 's benefit . |
| 23 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 24 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He 's now made a brave decision in many respects , because he 's been brought up playing for one club in one way . |
| 26 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 27 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 28 | We then end up eating for entertainment , rather than nourishment . |
| 29 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 30 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |