Example sentences of "[verb] up for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 2 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 3 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 4 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 5 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 6 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 7 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 8 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 9 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 10 | The first trick is to get left of the chockstone and stop in the Jacuzzi Pool , next , to pivot and line up for the exit slot which is only 2½ ft–3ft wide in a foaming pool whose diameter is only 18 ins more than a boat 's length . |
| 11 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 12 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 13 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 14 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 15 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 16 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 17 | The price is to be announced later this month , but the word is you need £20,000 plus to own one … and then you could start saving up for the insurance ! |
| 18 | I wish I thought better about the opportunities 1992 has to offer , but realistically I do n't think we 've even begun to limber up for the competition . ’ |
| 19 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 20 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
| 21 | ‘ Look at the extraordinary cross-section of Fleet Street which has turned up for the launch . ’ |
| 22 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 23 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 24 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 25 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 26 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 27 | Fresh greenskins were already forming up for the attack , spear-wielding infantry and archers among them , and towards the rear two huge Trolls shambled slowly through a sea of frolicking Snotlings . |
| 28 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 29 | Have you phoned up for the number ? |
| 30 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |