Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 32 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 33 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 34 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 35 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 36 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 37 | I found myself working twelve to fourteen hours a day , barely coming up for air , and looking forward to finishing the book so that life could begin again — rather than enjoying the day-by-day process of writing , and living life to the full . |
| 38 | We certainly will , we also launched today our er campaign for two million pounds , our General Election campaign for , for the money that we 're going to need to stand candidates in as many constituencies as possible , so we 're certainly gearing up for it , yes . |
| 39 | blindly coming up for a breather |