Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was waiting up for you . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 5 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 6 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 7 | Robin Corbett , who was speaking up for animals from the opposition front bench in the fox-hunting debate , had a bitter experience of his own concerning the animal-lovers ' vote . |
| 8 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 9 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |
| 10 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 14 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 15 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 16 | He 'd get very wild those times , like he was making up for something . |
| 17 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |