Example sentences of "up for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |
| 2 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 3 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 4 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
| 5 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 6 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 7 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 8 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 9 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 10 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 11 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |
| 12 | At £115 ( today a first edition set of Birds of Australia is worth in excess of £150,000 ) 283 subscribers signed up for the privilege of owning a copy . |
| 13 | There was another stream to drink from , perhaps an opportunity to visit some of the gorge 's ‘ five considerable caverns ’ , and in the scene as a whole , images enough for Coleridge to store up for the poetry of the future . |
| 14 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 15 | Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites . |
| 16 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 17 | What is lined up for the quincentennial in 1992 ? |
| 18 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 19 | After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire . |
| 20 | No-one could be spared to get fresh cots , so these men from farthest Arran and the Rhondda Valley sat up for the rest of the night with a brown baby under each arm . |
| 21 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 24 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 25 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 26 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 27 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 29 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 30 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |