Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye there some as come up travelling for seeds and for manure . |
| 2 | You may have seen the home of your dreams and not have a penny saved up to pay for it . |
| 3 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 4 | and new manager John Gorman could't have dreamt up wished for a better start … |
| 5 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 6 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 7 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 8 | I have therefore given up looking for someone . ’ |
| 9 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 10 | The workforce has fallen by 700,000 as people have retired or given up looking for jobs , but unemployment has risen by roughly 1.3 million , the EPI reports . |
| 11 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 12 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 13 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 14 | Club bosses are on their toes and a string of new clubs have sprung up to cater for kinky lonely-heart foot fetishists who recently won respectability after a couple of celebrated court cases . |
| 15 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 16 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 17 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's now made a brave decision in many respects , because he 's been brought up playing for one club in one way . |
| 19 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 20 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |
| 21 | It was no surprise when he was signed up to play for Somerset on a three-year contract after only his first tour of England . |
| 22 | Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United . |
| 23 | However , a string of Sunday newspapers lined up to call for Mr Birt to go . |
| 24 | There is one noticeable omission in the cavalcade he has lined up to speak for Europe : Mikhail Gorbachev and his ‘ common European house ’ . |
| 25 | All the influences were lined up waiting for me . |
| 26 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 27 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 28 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |