Example sentences of "up [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 2 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 3 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 4 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 5 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 6 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 7 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
| 8 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 9 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 10 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 11 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 12 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 13 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 14 | It is not yet known , however , who will end up paying for the Juno project , currently being supported by the London-based Moscow Narodny Bank . |
| 15 | Local people , who never wanted the event to be held are angry that they could end up paying for the three-day police operation . |
| 16 | So does that add up to conflict for the pubs ; healthy drinking verses healthy profit ? |
| 17 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 18 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 19 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 20 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 21 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 22 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 23 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 24 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 25 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 26 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 27 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 28 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 29 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |
| 30 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |