Example sentences of "[verb] up for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 3 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 6 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 7 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 8 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 9 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 10 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 14 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 15 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 16 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you might be otherwise involved — signing up for a television series , perhaps . ’ |
| 18 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 19 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Fred was now fully wound up for an argument . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ And to keep that feeling together I will try and make arrangements that we can all team up for a leisure day . ’ |
| 28 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 29 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 30 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |