Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they all voted to go to Disneyland would ratepayers be expected to cough up for that too ? ’ |
| 2 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |
| 3 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 4 | But I knew it was useless to try to make up for all his losses . |
| 5 | Erm on the mental health strategy erm yes we do need to sign up for that . |
| 6 | But now they ca n't wait to sign up for some tedious opinion poll , so they can tell the News Of The Screws that they think I 'm a layabout , or cast aspersions at my lovely new house . |
| 7 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 8 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 9 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 10 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 11 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 12 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 13 | It is often assumed that employers take advantage of the demand for positions where interesting work , pleasant conditions and a high degree of job satisfaction are reckoned to make up for low pay . |
| 14 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 15 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 16 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 17 | And if you can be bothered staying up for this , it will take you through to 6am tomorrow . |
| 18 | What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to make up for all those nights apart . |
| 20 | Popular with those who 've found romance late in life , and would like to make up for those lost years . |
| 21 | ALLY McCOIST last night declared himself fit for tomorrow 's European Cup match against CSKA Moscow — and vowed to make up for lost time . |
| 22 | Pancreatic enzymes are given to help improve digestion — and a high-protein , high fat diet with added vitamins is needed to make up for poor absorption of nutrients . |
| 23 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 24 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 25 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 26 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 27 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 28 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 29 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 30 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |