Example sentences of "be up for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 2 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 3 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 4 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 5 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 6 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 7 | Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve , because I 'm up for the record itself . |
| 8 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 9 | If a woman fucks a lot of men , each one fears he 's up for a rating . ’ |
| 10 | I have a sense of who 's up for the game , how guys feel , how they 're going to play . |
| 11 | Then I was up for a second — and the next wave hit me . ’ |
| 12 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 13 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 14 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 15 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |