Example sentences of "up [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 2 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 3 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 5 | At the end of the treatment period the subjects with a persistently normal urinary albumin excretion ( less than 30 mg/24 h ) were left untreated and followed up regularly for this variable . |
| 6 | Coincidentally , the England squad team up tomorrow for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Turkey . |
| 7 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 8 | I 'd hate for him to be stuck up there for last week in March |
| 9 | possibility is that Marilyn would stay up there for another year with Carris you know in their house and Timothy of course and erm , then sort of move down here |
| 10 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 11 | Sometimes Chinese Walls are used ; at other times firewalls , whereby a certain type of business is conducted separate from ordinary business , within a specialized subsidiary set up specifically for this purpose . |