Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the best way to serve the people we want to stand up for . |
| 2 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 3 | I 'm telling you and I 'm telling you , not him , he 's having now't say or so be tea on him , you want to stand up for yourself you , it 's time you opened your mouth to our Michael , do n't be afraid of him |
| 4 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 5 | Men , perhaps , should be encouraged to realise that women want to speak up for themselves , they do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 6 | I think in a very general way that men perhaps should be encouraged to realize that women also want to speak up for themselves . |
| 7 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 8 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 9 | We hold special events every month , with an Indian day next month , and whenever possible we like to dress up for the occasion . ’ |
| 10 | Giants set to sign up for showdown |
| 11 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 12 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 13 | I am not happy when something unfair happens to someone else and I try to stand up for what is right . |
| 14 | You do , you try to stand up for them , protect them |
| 15 | I was born here and I try to stick up for Britain — but things are bad . ’ |
| 16 | I suppose he 'll take it easy now and try to strengthen up for the winter |
| 17 | Try to stretch up for 15 counts this time . |
| 18 | You try to get up for a cup of tea |
| 19 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |
| 20 | People arrive late or fail to turn up for meetings . |
| 21 | Pilots should be encouraged to make an assessment during the final turn of how much airbrake they will need as they start to straighten up for the final approach , instead of waiting until the turn is completed at which point it is already too late . |
| 22 | We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe . |
| 23 | What she must teach herself to do was to stop caring , learn to stand up for herself . |
| 24 | It was based on the construction of a questionnaire , the Parental Attitude Research Inventory ( PARI ) , in which parents were asked to indicate their agreement with such statements as ‘ A child will be grateful later on for strict training , ’ and ‘ Children should realize how much parents have to give up for them . ’ |
| 25 | It 's certainly a , a day of reflection an and great appreciation on a part of all of us , the reason we 're here er for me , personally , I need to back up for a moment perhaps . |
| 26 | I mean you have to save up for it here do n't you ? |
| 27 | ‘ And if I have to pay up for the Mercedes at £1 a week for the rest of my life then that 's what I will do . ’ |
| 28 | She gives us our lunch and we have to wash up for her then . |
| 29 | Adrian Littlejohn had given United side a 61st minute lead to make up for two earlier misses from Brian Deane as the home side took a grip on the game . |
| 30 | If we who are against it have to speak up for them , then it 's a duty we willingly undertake . |