Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 2 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He saved one of the Signals Waafs from getting into trouble through not turning up for duty on time , simply by staying at his post until she finally did appear . |
| 5 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 6 | rising up for air like a diver , |
| 7 | With many electricity supply contracts coming up for renewal at the end of March , the first fruits of the Government 's privatisation policy for the industry are ripening , much like the olives growing in the Department of Energy 's new atrium at the centre of its London offices . |
| 8 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Coming up for sale on Thursday is John Constable 's Harnham Bridge Looking Towards Salisbury Cathedral , with a price tag of £1m plus eight magnificent water colours by Turner which are pitched at about £365,000 . |
| 11 | Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day 's outing . |
| 12 | HELP the Aged 's shops are warming up for winter with a special promotion of woollies , wellies and waterproofs . |
| 13 | The Labour party has form in standing up for secrecy in local government , in opposing the publication of school results or of any other kind of league table . |
| 14 | You ca n't do wi' your milk drying up for want of nourishment . ’ |