Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 2 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 3 | If this , combined with its vivid display of black and white fur , does not deter the enemy , it may then start swaying its body back and forth as if cranking itself up for action . |
| 4 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 5 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 6 | He said that I was killing myself , getting injured and mashing myself up for nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 8 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 9 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 10 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |