Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 2 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 3 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 4 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 5 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 6 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 7 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 8 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 9 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 10 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 11 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 12 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 13 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 14 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 15 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 17 | Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off . |