Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 2 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 3 | Blackburn , loads of Iti clubs were queueing up for him . |
| 4 | Lucien hurried to the wardrobe where several garments were hanging up for his use . |
| 5 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |
| 6 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 7 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 8 | And while these big men were entertaining outside St George 's Hall today , stand-up geniuses Lee Evans and Mark Thomas were gearing up for their show tonight at the Merseyside Academy . |
| 9 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 10 | Shilton , who is himself injured , has just 14 full-time professionals to choose from for the visit of Hartlepool after losing Just when Shilton thought things were looking up for his Second Division side before the 3-2 FA Cup win over Peterborough , he lost striker Paul Boardman with a foot injury and on-loan defender Richard Dryden with a groin injury . |
| 11 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 12 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 13 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 14 | When she had told Mr Evans , he had gone very quiet ; and then , just as they were going up for their bath , he suggested the picnic . |
| 15 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 16 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 17 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 18 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 19 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 20 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 21 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 22 | The road behind the tall wall was still quiet , but the birds were making up for it , their incessant repeated sounds rising to sudden random crescendos as they all chirped fiercely together . |
| 23 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 24 | Rain saw in that glance all the confirmation she needed that the Josephs were covering up for their friend . |
| 25 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 26 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 27 | Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent ’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . |
| 28 | However , Jane loved dancing and the new life that was opening up for her , but when she was offered work in 1907 at the English Theatre , Paris , she was frankly scared . |
| 29 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 30 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |