Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the best way to serve the people we want to stand up for . |
| 2 | We hold special events every month , with an Indian day next month , and whenever possible we like to dress up for the occasion . ’ |
| 3 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 4 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 5 | PLUS there are those gorgeous jewels we 've lined up for you . |
| 6 | competition Three of the best We 've gone competition potty this month and any guitar here in the Guitaristoffice which has n't been nailed down we 've got up for grabs . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 8 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 9 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 10 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 11 | She gives us our lunch and we have to wash up for her then . |
| 12 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 13 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |