Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 2 | ‘ The girl Alison has lined up for you . |
| 3 | Richard Dunwoody has signed up for Martin Pipe … young irishman Adrian Maguire is the new man … they should have 80 horses in training soon … |
| 4 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 5 | Flora had gone straight to bed and though Richard had stayed up for supper , he had been too worn out to eat much . |
| 6 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 7 | Two of the walls were covered with his drawings and paintings and on one wall were shelves that Tom had fixed up for his clothes and treasures . |
| 8 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 9 | Eddie Owen has signed up for the 1991 season with the Japanese and will sail aboard the 50-footer Will at the Key West and Miami 50ft regattas as tactician for Terry Neilson . |
| 10 | SCREEN beauty Daryl Hannah has signed up for her biggest role yet . |
| 11 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 12 | We go through the dozen or so photograph albums that Christine has made up for her , and Anna points out her grown-up ‘ sisters ’ , Christine and Sarah-Jane ; she also names her nieces and nephews for me . |
| 13 | Uncle Vernon had waited up for her . |
| 14 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 15 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 16 | Except that the face on it was black , it was pretty nearly the same as the one Mother Bombie had put up for Joy Prentice . |
| 17 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 18 | Stephen Murray had saved up for months to take his wife on the trip . |
| 19 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |