Example sentences of "[vb past] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 2 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 3 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 4 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 5 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 6 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 7 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 8 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 9 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 10 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 11 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 12 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 13 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 14 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 15 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 16 | Geared up for the hols ? |
| 17 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 18 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 19 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 20 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 21 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 22 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 23 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
| 24 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 25 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 26 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 27 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 30 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |