Example sentences of "up for [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 2 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 3 | Just as a stylesheet is set up for text so it is possible to create a basic colour palette using either the HLS ( Hue , Lightness , Saturation ) , CMYB ( Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , Black ) or RGB ( Red , Blue , Green ) models . |
| 4 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 5 | The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here . |
| 6 | Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they 're catching up on it now . |
| 7 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 8 | You have to enfranchise people to question these things and to take actions , telling them everything 's up for grabs and they have the right to make changes . ’ |
| 9 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 11 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 12 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 13 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 14 | Most wo n't pay up for delays unless your flight is held up for at least 12 hours — 10 with Thomas Cook . |
| 15 | Oh there was quite a few pas when I past I went up for paper but I did n't call in and vote , you know , |
| 16 | Er then he , there 's only three houses in the road that he lived in , , the next one along the road came up for auction and he sold his station and moved up to that and he said he 's just bought the one at the end of the road now which is er seven hundred and fifty thousand he paid for it , a hundred and fifty thousand to have it interior decorated . |
| 17 | The locals are thinly spread but Pembrokeshire Sea Canoeists , a group of about a dozen of around his own age of 31 , meet up for paddles and he is a member of the board lifesaving club at Whitesands . |
| 18 | Some form of processing ( amplifiers ) will be used in a long-distance system to ‘ boost ’ the signal level every so often to make up for losses before it is sent on its way again . |
| 19 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 20 | ‘ We bottle things up for years until they grow out of all proportion . ’ |
| 21 | vote for the three , that 's right and there was one one put their hand up for he persuaded them that Ne , Neil Kinnock would be a good leader , that was it er so one put their hand up for him one put their hand up for Major and she had the cheek to say |
| 22 | That site was up for sale but there was no takers . |
| 23 | It is up for sale because its owner , Lieutentant-Colonel Charles Galbraith , plans to retire . |
| 24 | Neill and Audrey Moir said they have put their £50,000 home in Darlington up for sale as they want to move somewhere smaller . |
| 25 | However , the factory is now up for sale and we are , therefore , looking for new accommodation for the sales office in the Warwick area . |
| 26 | Wayne had a P-38 up for sale and I was very interested in purchasing it . |
| 27 | Eventually the Kiplings put Low Birk Hatt up for sale and there is a sad and curious story associated with this . |