Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 2 | It is important for RE to engage explicitly with those aspects of experience which open up for many people a religious frame of reference . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 5 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | After all , they turn up for free . |
| 8 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |