Example sentences of "[vb base] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 3 | Shopping at the company store often means a long wait in the queue , so the children line up for the groceries , while Domitila sells her pies ( Barrios de Chungara and Viezzar 1978 ) . |
| 4 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 5 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 6 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 7 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 8 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
| 9 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 10 | FIFTEEN days cricket loom up for the Irish team in the coming summer . |
| 11 | TELEVISION viewers in the south may soon be seeing advertisements for undertakers , as funeral directors gear up for an increasingly competitive and high-profile market . |
| 12 | As major appliance makers gear up for an expected world market for ‘ green ’ refrigerators , FORON is the first to offer a fridge completely free of so-called chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 13 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 14 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 15 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 16 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 17 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 18 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 19 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 20 | The volunteer may help the young person with job applications or other form-filling , go to a football match or the cinema with them or just meet up for a chat . |
| 21 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 22 | Tune up for the regatta , arriving at beautiful Gümüslük after a brisk beat against a force 6 . |
| 23 | ‘ Come on , my sweet morsels , open up for the nice sheep . ’ |
| 24 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
| 25 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 26 | Save up for a holiday . |
| 27 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 28 | You save up for the tokens to get what get y'know whatever it is you 're after . |
| 29 | Oxford 's Yinka Idowa continues her run up for the forthcoming outdoor season , this time indoors , jumping for Great Britain in the Pearl Assurance games in Glasgow . |
| 30 | Artists team up for the Roosevelt memorial |