Example sentences of "[vb past] up for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 2 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 3 | Several of the issues just outlined will be given special attention in our last chapter , which will look at the wider horizons opened up for Protestant theology by the ecumenical movement , the encounter with other faiths , and the development of science . |
| 4 | Koo Stark turned up for one case wearing a short and flowery little-girl 's party frock with velvet cuffs , which said , ‘ Gee , I am gentle , I am vulnerable in the big bad world . ’ |
| 5 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 6 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 7 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 8 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 9 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 10 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 11 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 12 | The women made up for this restraint . |
| 13 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 14 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 15 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 16 | ORGANISATIONS employing more than 35,000 people signed up for good health at a ceremony in South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 17 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 18 | Sailors who had had the ship shot out from under them because of Mountbatten 's recklessness signed up for another tour , such were the inspirational qualities he possessed . |
| 19 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 20 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 21 | The mercenaries on the street looked up for one moment , eyes wide , and then he was upon them . |
| 22 | I spread them in benediction , and reached up for some air . |
| 23 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 24 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 25 | Many said they definitely dressed up for each other , for their friends and themselves , and exploded the myth that women are dressing for men . |
| 26 | I draw on feeling banked up for that time . |
| 27 | ‘ Arazi is 60 to 70 per cent wound up for this race , ’ he points out , ‘ but we have had no interruptions in preparing him . ’ |
| 28 | The frost put paid to Mowden Park 's home game , while Newcastle Gosforth warmed up for next weekend 's Pilkington Cup fourth round tie at Manchester with a 27–9 win over Nottingham . |
| 29 | NIGERIAN prince Andrew Harriman warmed up for next week 's Pilkington Cup rugby final repeat against Bath with a regal hat-trick of tries for Harlequins in a 64-6 win at Plymouth . |
| 30 | England spinner Peter Such warmed up for next week 's second Test with an impressive spell as Essex put pressure on Lancashire at Old Trafford . |