Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 2 | I must thank the judges who did a good job for us apart from three who entered , showed up for a while and were then missing when their turn was due . |
| 3 | but when he stumped up for a brandy and soda |
| 4 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 5 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 6 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 7 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 8 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 9 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 11 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 12 | He said OK rewrite them , so I held things up for an hour and at the end of it he said he was n't convinced . |
| 13 | We get the whole thing seized up for an hour and a half in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening . |
| 14 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 15 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 16 | ‘ Never needed one , ’ the beautiful barmaid explained , as Cornelius settled up for the bread and board . |
| 17 | StorageTek says that it too had put some money up for the development and would have marketed the product even without buying the company — although the Viking was seen as a direct competitor to its own Iceberg , Viking is in fact a simpler device with fewer features . |
| 18 | Hop growing was the main industry in the village and the school 's calendar was very much influenced by the farming calendar : ‘ August 24th , 1883 — broke up for the harvest and hop tying today . |
| 19 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 20 | Queuing up for the bathroom and kitchen cooker can create explosive feelings . |
| 21 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 22 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 23 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 24 | Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action . |
| 25 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 26 | Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes . |
| 27 | When the Watermen closed its doors , Connor locked up for the night and made his way upstairs . |
| 28 | The architect and his wife would put Eric up for the night and give us both a delicious dinner , the Signora exercising just the degree of chaperonage that was considered desirable at that time . |
| 29 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 30 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |