Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 2 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 3 | Not that I 'm any good you understand — no natural talent — but I make up for it with hard work . ’ ) |
| 4 | Helen was worse than me , I got up for Neighbours , I mean , she was really dead . |
| 5 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 6 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 7 | And he cancelled his er trip but I 'd I booked up for one to go to Norway |
| 8 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 9 | I came up for air . |
| 10 | I put up for sale the service areas on new long leases , retaining some controls only to ensure that the areas were safe stopping places for motorway travellers . |
| 11 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 12 | Afterwards I washes up for them . |
| 13 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 14 | And that was where at the age of sixteen , I turned up for my first job interview . |
| 15 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 16 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 17 | Whether I 'll be remembered as the most pompous , hard-to-get-along-with person they 've ever come across , because I stand up for what I believe in , or as the best athlete Britain 's ever had , which I think will be the case , I 'll always be remembered . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll admit it was a weak-sister thing to say , but why should I stick up for Russell ? |
| 19 | And the place is used a lot erm like the local Trade 's Council meet here , and I make sure that I open up for them . |
| 20 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 21 | I get up for about half four and |
| 22 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 24 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 25 | When push came to shove , I stuck up for him . |
| 26 | I packed up I packed up for two and a half years and then erm when we went to Spain in August , no in October , the four girls went me and me two sisters and a friend from work , Barbara . |
| 27 | I turn up for staff meals but I do n't really eat at them because young Pooley is so guilty about what he 's condemned me to that he keeps on having parcels of goodies delivered . |
| 28 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 29 | While I go up for a bath you can take stock of the supplies I brought . ’ |
| 30 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |