Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 4 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 5 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 8 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 9 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 10 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 11 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 12 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 13 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 14 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 15 | Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew , President of the BT National Swimathon , wished all 30,000 swimmers who have signed up for this year 's BT National Swimathon ‘ the very best of luck ’ . |