Example sentences of "[verb] up for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 2 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 3 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 4 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 5 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 6 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 7 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 8 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 9 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 10 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 11 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 12 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 13 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 14 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 15 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 16 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 17 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 18 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 19 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 20 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 21 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 22 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 23 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 24 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 25 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 26 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 27 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 28 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 29 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 30 | Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class . |