Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , taking one to lunch or meeting up for a drink gives you a chance to talk shop and learn about the other 's work and publications . |
| 2 | SUSAN DEVOY , seven times champion and top seed , and Sue Wright , the English girl who ended the New Zealander 's run last year , are lined up for a revenge meeting in the quarter-finals of the Hi-Tec British Open Championships . |
| 3 | Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places . |
| 4 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 5 | Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged . |
| 6 | ‘ Puckering up for a kiss exercises 12 muscles , so do the same there . |
| 7 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 8 | Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse . |
| 9 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 10 | When you sign up for a savings scheme check the clauses for giving notice . |
| 11 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 12 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 13 | The paper quoted his wife as saying : " We hope our work within the ANC will … make up for the hurt caused to so many people by Dr Verwoerd . " |
| 14 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 15 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 16 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 17 | There has been increasing anguish among law-abiding poll tax payers who are being surcharged £19 to make up for the shortfall caused by uncollected tax . |
| 18 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 19 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 20 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 21 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 22 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 23 | but my instructions were that what the deputy ordered , and I used to make a book up for the yardmen to prepare these . |
| 24 | You save up for the tokens to get what get y'know whatever it is you 're after . |
| 25 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 26 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Did you drop ten pounds ? ’ said Kim holding the note up for the woman to see it better . |
| 28 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |