Example sentences of "he [vb past] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | He came up for coffee , then his car would n't start . |
| 3 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 4 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 5 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 6 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |