Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 2 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 3 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 4 | that need , you know if you 're , unless you live sort of here you 're going up for appointments , doctors , whatever |
| 5 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 6 | Getting him to hospital is something I dread you would n't believe the struggle to get people to understand how bad it is — it 's usually building up for weeks but until he 's practically killed himself or someone else , no one wants to know . |
| 7 | They earn their bread reckoning up for investors the risk of default . |
| 8 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 9 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 10 | Robin Corbett , who was speaking up for animals from the opposition front bench in the fox-hunting debate , had a bitter experience of his own concerning the animal-lovers ' vote . |
| 11 | There are other groups starting up for carers , some backed by local Age Concerns and other voluntary organisations such as the National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependents . |
| 12 | The curriculum is not seen in terms of constant amelioration of handicapping conditions , but rather in terms of making up for deficiencies which are constantly imputed to the child . |
| 13 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 14 | Standing up for koi : well-fed fish leave tadpoles in peace |
| 15 | Standing up for pensioners has rarely been popular except among pensioners . |
| 16 | Watercolour would never have dried and I would have died of exposure whilst setting up for oils . |
| 17 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 18 | She had never liked suiting up for trips outside in space , and this suit was an old model , and equipped for combat as well as maintenance . |