Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 2 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 3 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 4 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 5 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 6 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 7 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 8 | ‘ Soon be able to come up for air . ’ |
| 9 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 10 | ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ was the first major van Gogh to come up for sale since ‘ Portrait du Dr Gachet ’ , executed 3–5 June 1890 , broke all auction house records by fetching $82.5 million ( £43.1 million ) at Christie 's New York in May 1990 . |
| 11 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 12 | Depicting a muscular young man , naked and balancing on his left leg , it is thought to be more than 370 years old and the most significant example of Renaissance sculpture to come up for auction . |
| 13 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 14 | The purpose of this chapter is to open up for discussion some of the complex and ambivalent reactions which exist in us all towards old age and old people . |
| 15 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 16 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 17 | Businesses in buildings with glass shattered by the blast were re-assuring staff that it would be safe to turn up for work . |
| 18 | In the simplest case , you may not be sure whether you should continue to turn up for work or not . |
| 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 | Similarly , job-related sickness may mean that the ageing worker is more frequently unable to turn up for work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | SELECTING jurors is ‘ a lottery within a lottery ’ and can be unfair to the administration of justice , an Old Bailey judge said yesterday , as he fined a man £100 for failing to turn up for jury service on the second day of a trial because it was ‘ not his scene ’ . |
| 23 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 24 | Ron finally became angry and wrote me a letter asking when I was going to turn up for training . |
| 25 | The 26-year-old striker later claimed he had picked up a groin injury but then breached club regulations and widened the rift with Wilkinson by failing to turn up for training or treatment on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 26 | FANCY going to France to stock up for Christmas ? |
| 27 | ‘ What if we both get too drunk to get up for work tomorrow ? ’ she asked as they climbed aboard the bus and put their money in the ticket machine . |
| 28 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 29 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 30 | ‘ For that gracious apology I 'll allow you to get up for dinner tonight . ’ |