Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |
| 2 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 7 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 8 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To some extent , each pattern seems to have grown up for extraneous , though important , reasons to do with institutional or occupational history and student circumstances . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 15 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 16 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 17 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 18 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 19 | In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods . |
| 20 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 21 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 22 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 23 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 24 | Confidence in the government was further lowered by public accusations by Merbah 's predecessor as Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi ( who resigned from the FLN central committee on Oct. 16 ) , that President Chadli Bendjedid had known about a US$26,000,000 corruption scandal involving state contracts , which was currently subject to a parliamentary inquiry , and had covered up for senior ministers involved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The schemes they have dreamed up for art-related asset-manipulation are being imitated throughout the world , notably in Europe and Japan . |
| 27 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 28 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 29 | But a third group , induced to feel purringly happy , remained blocked up for longer than patients who had no treatment at all . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |