Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 2 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 3 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 4 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 5 | that need , you know if you 're , unless you live sort of here you 're going up for appointments , doctors , whatever |
| 6 | When you 're clearing up for lunch look out the window it 's the enclosed garden . |
| 7 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 8 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 9 | The private possessions of Robert Maxwell are going up for auction . |
| 10 | To the Manor now , where things may be looking up for Oxford United . |
| 11 | He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . |
| 12 | Must be coming up for school dinner-time . ’ |
| 13 | Much interest will attach this week to the performances of Nicola Buxton and Caroline Hall , the two teenagers who will be teeing up for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup at Hoylake on June 5 and 6 . |
| 14 | HELP the Aged 's shops are warming up for winter with a special promotion of woollies , wellies and waterproofs . |
| 15 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 16 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 17 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 18 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 19 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 20 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 21 | Another slice of the Maxwell empire is going up for sale . |
| 22 | well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it |
| 23 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 24 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 25 | The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's coming up for midnight , ’ said Shirley , with some relief , pointing at the quartz carriage clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 27 | ‘ You know the land that 's coming up for auction ? ’ |
| 28 | My policy is to vote in local elections for the person who , in my opinion , is going to serve the locality best , regardless of political views , but how can one vote without some knowledge of who is putting up for election ? |
| 29 | They like it everyone is sort of their trundling around , the library is showing up for lunch . |
| 30 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |