Example sentences of "up for a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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1 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |