Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 2 | The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter . |
| 3 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 4 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 5 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 6 | The new road has opened up for motorists an area hitherto out of bounds . |
| 7 | has drawn up for sign language is this sort of flow chart er , with dates and things working backwards from the event , saying you know we need this by two weeks beforehand we need it back |
| 8 | Kelly ( 1985 ) found instances of girls performing a service role in the laboratory — being expected to tidy up for boys , for example . |
| 9 | Richard Dunwoody has signed up for Martin Pipe … young irishman Adrian Maguire is the new man … they should have 80 horses in training soon … |
| 10 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 11 | The workers , members of the International Association of Machinists , are taking advantage of the boom to try to make up for years of contract concessions and stagnant income . |
| 12 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 13 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 14 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 15 | I have a four foot tank which I was going to set up for Malawis , however , with the above in mind , what would you consider the best course of action : |
| 16 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 17 | Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day 's outing . |
| 18 | Ron finally became angry and wrote me a letter asking when I was going to turn up for training . |
| 19 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 20 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 21 | Getting geared up for Microsoft 's Windows NT , Inmark Development Mountain View , California , has announced an NT version of its zApp C++ Application Framework . |
| 22 | He , too , was quiet during the drive back , but as he pulled in outside her flat he said thoughtfully , as if they were continuing a conversation , ‘ Of course , some guys get invited up for coffee . ’ |
| 23 | I like a bit of dominant , you know standing up for people in my woman . |
| 24 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 25 | The first Chen Sam knew about it was when reporters began ringing up for confirmation . |
| 26 | Giants set to sign up for showdown |
| 27 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 28 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 29 | SELECTING jurors is ‘ a lottery within a lottery ’ and can be unfair to the administration of justice , an Old Bailey judge said yesterday , as he fined a man £100 for failing to turn up for jury service on the second day of a trial because it was ‘ not his scene ’ . |
| 30 | The 26-year-old striker later claimed he had picked up a groin injury but then breached club regulations and widened the rift with Wilkinson by failing to turn up for training or treatment on Monday and Tuesday . |