Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 2 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 3 | When you 're clearing up for lunch look out the window it 's the enclosed garden . |
| 4 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 5 | The private possessions of Robert Maxwell are going up for auction . |
| 6 | He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . |
| 7 | Must be coming up for school dinner-time . ’ |
| 8 | HELP the Aged 's shops are warming up for winter with a special promotion of woollies , wellies and waterproofs . |
| 9 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 10 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 11 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 12 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 13 | Another slice of the Maxwell empire is going up for sale . |
| 14 | well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it |
| 15 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 16 | The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's coming up for midnight , ’ said Shirley , with some relief , pointing at the quartz carriage clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | ‘ You know the land that 's coming up for auction ? ’ |
| 19 | My policy is to vote in local elections for the person who , in my opinion , is going to serve the locality best , regardless of political views , but how can one vote without some knowledge of who is putting up for election ? |
| 20 | They like it everyone is sort of their trundling around , the library is showing up for lunch . |
| 21 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 22 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |