Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 2 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 3 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |
| 4 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 5 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eager Owls fired up for a fightback |
| 9 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
| 10 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 11 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 12 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
| 13 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 14 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |