Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 2 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 3 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 4 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
| 5 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 6 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 7 | But the dear old garment mysteriously turned up for sale at an auction in our social club . |
| 8 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 9 | Having managed to come by a decent bit of steak and kidney , he stood over the young maid , who came in once a week , until she had managed to produce a pie , later warmed up for dinner in the microwave . |
| 10 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 11 | A company was set up , a detailed survey was done , and a bill drawn up for presentation to Parliament — the usual procedure . |
| 12 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 13 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 14 | Most were not considered worth interviewing , but a shortlist was drawn up for interview at the Northern Foods flat in Clarges Street . |
| 15 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 17 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 18 | Parliament passed the bill and thereafter a creditor no longer had the power to detain a debtor already in prison at his pleasure , since the man could at once petition the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors for his discharge on the terms of his whole property , present and future , being given up for distribution among his creditors — and not only in London but to Commissioners who made circuits to hear such petitions in country districts . |
| 19 | Then more of our staff were called up for service with Queen Alexandra 's Imperial Military Nursing Service . |
| 20 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 21 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 22 | A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM . |
| 23 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 24 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 25 | When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset . |
| 26 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 27 | The material for a given vehicle was split up for convenience under various grouped headings . |
| 28 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 29 | What an admission to make after 12 years of Conservative government that our economy is uniquely incapable of being signed up for participation in a single currency . |
| 30 | Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile . |