Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 2 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 3 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 4 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 5 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 6 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 7 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 8 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 9 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 10 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 11 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 13 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 14 | Now that Rune had taken charge of the whole operation , bringing in ‘ back-up ’ troops , her own futile efforts were being shown up for the amateur plan they were ! |
| 15 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 16 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 17 | Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class . |
| 18 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 19 | Similar ideas for features , visits and events could be thought up for the remaining areas . |
| 20 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 21 | At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned . |
| 22 | Are educational establishments really geared up for the European challenge , and do our current measures go far enough ? |
| 23 | ‘ Unfortunately , something came up — a trouble-shooting mission that required Adam 's special diplomatic talents — I 'm afraid he 's going to be tied up for the major part of the weekend . |
| 24 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 26 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 27 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 28 | We have to ensure that people who deserve to be locked up for the public good are locked up . |
| 29 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 30 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |