Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 2 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 3 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 4 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 6 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 7 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 8 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 9 | Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ . |
| 10 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 11 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It was n't the joke , it was the ritual — to get himself psyched up for the performance . ’ |
| 13 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 14 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 16 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 17 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 18 | Have you phoned up for the number ? |
| 19 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 20 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 21 | For a demonstration or more information on how Victor can help you shape up for the 90's contact any one of our Victor Authorised Dealers or call Sarah Brown at Victor on . |
| 22 | You save up for the tokens to get what get y'know whatever it is you 're after . |
| 23 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 24 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 25 | The list you draw up for the exercise might be completely different . |
| 26 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 27 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 28 | why do n't you save up for the Sony compact jobs ? |
| 29 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 30 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |