Example sentences of "[noun] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil . |
2 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
3 | Boxing : Sky lines up for a classic TV fight : Neil Wilson on the big battle of the small screen and growing threat of the extra terrestrial to the conventional channels : ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel .. |
4 | Stars of Hi de Hi and It Ai n't Half Hot Mum team up for a new series set below stairs , You Rang M'Lord . |
5 | Boon was their hero … he cruised to his century and set his team up for a big score … |
6 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
7 | SCAFFOLDER UP FOR THE HIGH JUMP — IN AID OF CHARITY |
8 | Jump diagonally forwards with the front leg and pick the rear foot up for a high roundhouse kick . |
9 | Yeah , but it 's just really for the making up for the odd one I |
10 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
11 | Get your initials up for the ultimate high score . ’ |
12 | Indeed , he and his mates had driven to a house in East Belfast straight from the fracas , to try and tee some pals up for a quick retaliation . |
13 | But a tachistoscope was a bit like an oscilloscope or a screen where you could flash a word up for a very shore period of time . |
14 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |
15 | There were election posters up for the mayoral race . |
16 | The entertainments manager wants to hear Frank sing and gears up for a rip-roaring session , at which the hapless hero launches into ‘ Early One Morning ’ — echoes of the audition Crawford did as a child for Benjamin Britten 's production of The Turn of the Screw . |
17 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |