Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 2 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 3 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 4 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 5 | It took us ages to save up for those trainers . |
| 6 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 7 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 8 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 9 | I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue . |
| 10 | Babies have very immature immune systems and rely upon breast milk to make up for this deficiency as it contains protective factors . |
| 11 | However , anyone who is on the move , under stress or is likely to skip meals should think about taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for any deficiencies in diet . |
| 12 | The salt is to make up for any salt that you lose . |
| 13 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |