Example sentences of "up for [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 2 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 4 | There had been , for one thing , enormous population growth I 'll put the figures up for you The population had roughly trebled er between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty and then , in the period we 're primarily concerned with here , the hundred years from eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty have increased from four hundred and thirty million up to five hundred and eighty million . |
| 5 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |