Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 2 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 3 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |
| 4 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 5 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |