Example sentences of "[vb past] up for [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 2 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 3 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 4 | No patients turned up for evening surgery , but , for once , that was not depressing . |
| 5 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 6 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 7 | Margaret Thatcher 's governments encouraged the old nationalised industries to sell derelict sites which retailers snapped up for building superstores . |