Example sentences of "[verb] up for more " in BNC.

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1 And then the next night he shows up for more .
2 The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again .
3 The cry went up for more pix .
4 He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours .
5 Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay .
6 Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century .
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