Example sentences of "up for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
14 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
20 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
23 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
24 | you know this is so she says oh I 'll probably see ya , er one night she was er cutting all the up for the rest of the week like , she said do you want a bet on the the big race this Saturday ? |
25 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
26 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
27 | or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied . |
28 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
29 | Thomas is seeking to recoup from Essex the fees his parents have had to pay to make up for the lack of state-funded special tuition available to him . |
30 | Whale meat made up for the lack of other sources of protein in the Japanese diet . |