Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
| 2 | Did you not tell her that everyone dresses up for Willi 's party ? |
| 3 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 4 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 5 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a food company which wants someone to dress up for an advertisement as a giant slice of ham with cheese and tomato between two halves of an enormous bun . ’ |
| 7 | Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ . |
| 8 | Erlend , six years younger , needed someone to speak up for him , sometimes . |
| 9 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 10 | And nobody turned up for it . |
| 11 | We 've had somebody ringing up for their crossword puzzle , can we fill in the clue to that ? |
| 12 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 13 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 14 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's feeble , Jess , and silly , but I 've never been one to stand up for my rights , so to speak . |
| 16 | ‘ This one came up for sale , so I grabbed it . |
| 17 | My auntie and uncle were with us as well , and it was awful , no one stuck up for me . |
| 18 | ‘ We designed the all-weather track for Lingfield before we sold it , so they had everything set up for them . |
| 19 | It was something to dress up for . |
| 20 | ‘ They just collapse , ’ he said , leaning against his winning pumpkin , which looked like something run up for a stage set . |
| 21 | Her new partner alleviated the terrible loneliness caused by my father 's death after 50 years of marriage and literally gave her something to get up for in the morning , when planting tulips would n't have been enough . |
| 22 | One saves up for a lifelong dream , another |
| 23 | " You needed something to make up for it , " Lyn said . |
| 24 | A few more straight episodes on top of this treat had everybody fired up for ‘ Interstellar Combat ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |