Example sentences of "[vb base] up for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold up for new town museum |
| 2 | Women team up for new season |
| 3 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 4 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 5 | Separate spheres of responsibility can be identified , and control systems set up for junior management , and so controls , performance measurement and accountability are better . |
| 6 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 7 | Roll up for super carpet market ! |
| 8 | And this is where these latter day Roundheads and Cavaliers stock up for future conflicts . |
| 9 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 10 | Sign up for private insurance . |
| 11 | IF you want to get in trim for summer and raise money for a good cause , sign up for sponsored aerobics at the Dolphin Centre later this month . |
| 12 | Follow up for retinal screening was better in prompted patients than in controls ; two prompted patients defaulted as against 12 controls ( x≥6.9 , df=1 ; p=0.008 ) . |
| 13 | Finally , extended follow up for gastric cancer incidence among the 1977–81 users of cimetidine was undertaken by record linkage with The Danish Registry of Deaths and The Danish Cancer Registry . |
| 14 | In any event many contracts for the provision of the service come up for regular renewal , giving you the chance to tender when they do . |
| 15 | ‘ We steam up for arranged parties and clubs and have four staunch volunteers and three or four helpers who lay track and run the railway … it would be quite impossible otherwise . ’ |