Example sentences of "[verb] up for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 3 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 4 | Two hundred riders will line up for this marathon . |
| 5 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |
| 6 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 7 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 8 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 9 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 10 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 11 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 12 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 13 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 14 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 15 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 16 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 17 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 18 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 19 | In part two : Back on track … the Robins tune up for another season . |
| 20 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 21 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 22 | The strength of the association between the mortality and morbidity was given by the slope of this line , indicating how much sickness goes up for each point increase in the death rate . |
| 23 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 24 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 26 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 27 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 28 | The women made up for this restraint . |
| 29 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 30 | They 're one of 14 national display teams limbering up for this weekend 's International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire . |