Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 2 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 3 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 4 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 5 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 6 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 7 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 8 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |