Example sentences of "[verb] up for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added up for each of our 800,000 sows , this would take the British herd to the moon and back 30 times . |
| 2 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 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 | You do n't show up for any of them . ’ |
| 5 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 6 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 7 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 8 | More of one may make up for less of another in some circumstances . |
| 9 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 10 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 11 | Controls can be set up for most of these experiments , e.g. plant cress seed on dry blotting paper as well as wet , so that children begin to realise that it really is the water that is responsible for the change . |
| 12 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 13 | The Girls black up for one of their routines |
| 14 | I must save up for all of him . |
| 15 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 16 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 17 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 18 | This makes up for some of the failings of the pancreas , but it leaves the diabetics reliant on an insulin supply , and unable to fine-tune the level of insulin in the way that a healthy pancreas would . |