Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 32 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 33 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 34 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 35 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 36 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 37 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 38 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 39 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 40 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 41 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |