Example sentences of "[verb] up for [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 2 | Speaking of luck , there 's a colt I want to buy not far from Lexington — came up for sale just when I was thinking of getting in some new blood . |
| 3 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 4 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 5 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 6 | Head teacher John Moorhead and pupil Frankie Mckay , who turned up for school yesterday morning |
| 7 | Black kids are psyched up for sport anyway . |
| 8 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 9 | Fishermen reported hearing the explosion and bits of debris were washed up for months afterwards . |
| 10 | Better prospects had by now opened up for Charles elsewhere with the death of Pippin of Aquitaine in December 838 . |
| 11 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 12 | Right lads , a lot of them coming up for sport today . |
| 13 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 14 | Mind you , we 'll still make sets with the old gauge low Bs in them , because some players do n't want to make the shift and some basses just are n't set up for strings that big . ’ |
| 15 | Oh we 're set up for Christmas now ! |
| 16 | Get your brush and brush up for mummy there yeah these places you can get quite a good discount for being |
| 17 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |
| 18 | ‘ What if we both get too drunk to get up for work tomorrow ? ’ she asked as they climbed aboard the bus and put their money in the ticket machine . |
| 19 | ‘ For that gracious apology I 'll allow you to get up for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 20 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 21 | Book Bargains Ltd , the specialist remainder chain founded by Philip Weatherburn 14 years ago and put up for sale earlier this month , is in liquidation . |
| 22 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 23 | Ahhh I shall have to tell him then , he said cos that 'll come up for sale then . |
| 24 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 25 | Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies . |
| 26 | THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week . |
| 27 | The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids . |
| 28 | United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane . |
| 29 | There are matters concerning the teaching of languages for specific purposes ( LSP ) which come up for consideration here as well . |
| 30 | She had never liked suiting up for trips outside in space , and this suit was an old model , and equipped for combat as well as maintenance . |