Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 2 | I packed up I packed up for two and a half years and then erm when we went to Spain in August , no in October , the four girls went me and me two sisters and a friend from work , Barbara . |
| 3 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest . |
| 6 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 7 | It is important for RE to engage explicitly with those aspects of experience which open up for many people a religious frame of reference . |
| 8 | The 24-year-old was hoping to be a regular England choice , but instead finds himself making up for lost time . |
| 9 | The compression ratio is from 1:1 to infinity:1 and Threshold , Ratio , Attack and Release controls are provided , along with an Output level control which makes up for any gain lost during processing . |
| 10 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 11 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 12 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 13 | I mean , you stood up for four hits , Mouse ? ’ |
| 14 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 16 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 17 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 18 | ‘ We steam up for arranged parties and clubs and have four staunch volunteers and three or four helpers who lay track and run the railway … it would be quite impossible otherwise . ’ |
| 19 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 20 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 21 | After all , they turn up for free . |
| 22 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 23 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 24 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 25 | And then the next night he shows up for more . |
| 26 | Cos he signed up for five , five years did n't he ? |
| 27 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 28 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 29 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 30 | If it dries up for three or four days it 's st dries up for three or four days and Dennis has to stop the minute he picks it up it 's just blown away . |