Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it .
2 Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows .
3 Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector .
4 While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning .
5 The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership .
6 In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers .
7 Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums .
8 The couple , who want to remain anonymous but live near Darlington , signed up for a unit at Sutton Hall , near Thirsk , last June .
9 AT LONG last we have a newspaper that will speak up for a referendum on Maastricht .
10 I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm .
11 Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 .
12 ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book .
13 She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale .
14 After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini .
15 Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent .
16 Geoff Cox and professional Accountant , avid Practical PC reader and long time Dataease user John Brown team up for a look at Dataease 4.5 the latest version of the popular Dataease Database .
17 The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses .
18 Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose .
19 I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife .
20 From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish .
21 These 85 patients have been followed up for a total of 583 person-years .
22 A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire .
23 Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test .
24 If you really do n't feel like coming up for a smear at that time , that 's fine and we 'll understand why .
25 BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips .
26 But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket .
27 But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers .
28 No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line .
29 In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills .
30 Och , Ah 've been dyin' tae get up for a weekend amang yirsels .
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