Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun sg] [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 More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday .
11 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 . "
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’
21 ‘ Did you drop ten pounds ? ’ said Kim holding the note up for the woman to see it better .
22 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 .
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