Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 2 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 3 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 4 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 5 | ready boxed up for you |
| 6 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 7 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 9 | And obviously they have their own priorities , so they do n't necessarily , they 're not necessarily geared up for that . |
| 10 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 11 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 12 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 13 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 14 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 15 | With their male love of machines , he and his friends ( especially rounded up for the occasion ) spent hours tinkering with it , heads down in worship under the bonnet . |
| 16 | The grand style of landscaped gardens with carefully planned borders and regimented bedding plants ‘ like soldiers all lined up for attention ’ is not for her . |
| 17 | Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile . |
| 18 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 19 | ‘ And I got myself all dressed up for you … ’ |
| 20 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 21 | It was just too galling , seeing him all dressed up for someone else . |
| 22 | Aschmann in his house , all dressed up for a festive occasion , the most glamorous lady in the theatre , was going to make it a party like no other . |
| 23 | They found , however , that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 26 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 27 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 28 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 29 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 30 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |