Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackburn , loads of Iti clubs were queueing up for him . |
| 2 | Lucien hurried to the wardrobe where several garments were hanging up for his use . |
| 3 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |
| 4 | And while these big men were entertaining outside St George 's Hall today , stand-up geniuses Lee Evans and Mark Thomas were gearing up for their show tonight at the Merseyside Academy . |
| 5 | Shilton , who is himself injured , has just 14 full-time professionals to choose from for the visit of Hartlepool after losing Just when Shilton thought things were looking up for his Second Division side before the 3-2 FA Cup win over Peterborough , he lost striker Paul Boardman with a foot injury and on-loan defender Richard Dryden with a groin injury . |
| 6 | When she had told Mr Evans , he had gone very quiet ; and then , just as they were going up for their bath , he suggested the picnic . |
| 7 | The road behind the tall wall was still quiet , but the birds were making up for it , their incessant repeated sounds rising to sudden random crescendos as they all chirped fiercely together . |
| 8 | Rain saw in that glance all the confirmation she needed that the Josephs were covering up for their friend . |
| 9 | However , Jane loved dancing and the new life that was opening up for her , but when she was offered work in 1907 at the English Theatre , Paris , she was frankly scared . |
| 10 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 11 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 12 | ‘ I was waiting up for you . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd get very wild those times , like he was making up for something . |
| 14 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |