Example sentences of "[verb] up for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 3 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 4 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 5 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 6 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 7 | ‘ I already wear a lot of Joe Bloggs ’ stuff because I do n't dress up for special occasions . |
| 8 | is n't there a risk that if we do n't keep a reasonable balance between employment and employment demand and employment supply in North Yorkshire , we shall finish up for different reasons with a need to regenerate the economy of Yorkshire , North Yorkshire ? |
| 9 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 10 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 11 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |
| 12 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 13 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 14 | Hold up for 5 counts . |
| 15 | Lying down , with knees bent towards the chest , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 16 | Raise the elbows head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 17 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 18 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 19 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 20 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 21 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 22 | Lying as shown raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 23 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 24 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 25 | Hold up for 10 counts . |
| 26 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 3 counts . |
| 27 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 28 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 29 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 30 | Horoscopes were also extremely popular and frequently drawn up for Protestant clergy and laity ; even Queen Elizabeth , the head of the English church , consulted her astrologer before deciding on a date for her coronation . |