Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 2 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 3 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 4 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 5 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , HP , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Labs and OSF — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an API that Tivoli has already offered up for their use ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 6 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and the Open Software Foundation — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an Application Programming Interface that Tivoli has already offered up for their use . |
| 7 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 8 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 9 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 10 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 11 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 13 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 14 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 15 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 16 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 17 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 18 | Whatever the occasion , Fagan had not dressed up for it . |
| 19 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 20 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 21 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 22 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 23 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 24 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 25 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 26 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 28 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were , you 've certainly made up for it since . |
| 30 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |