Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 2 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 3 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 4 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 5 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 6 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 7 | Master John 's going up for the high one . ’ |
| 8 | It comprises such things as feeding , washing , lifting , cleaning up for the incontinent , protecting , and comforting . |
| 9 | Stepping up for the pre-fight weigh-in at a solid 144 pages , it comes across as a black , grainy , militant meltdown of Premiere , Rolling Stone , Spin , The Source and Details . |
| 10 | I 'm sticking up for the little bless him . |
| 11 | Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington . |
| 12 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 13 | Limbering up for the big race , are |
| 14 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 15 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 16 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 17 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 18 | MacDonald 's hostess Angela Donalis from the city 's Lord Street premises is stocking up for the huge demand which is expected this weekend . |
| 19 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 20 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |