Example sentences of "up [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 2 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 3 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts . |
| 4 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts holding each count for 1 second . |
| 5 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts . |
| 6 | Raise the arms towards the toes , lifting the head and shoulders off the floor as far as possible without straining.Continue stretching up gently for 10 counts . |
| 7 | Stretch up gently for 20 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 8 | Stretch up gently for 20 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 9 | Stretch up gently for 15 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 10 | So er this this one is setting everybody up for May and starting the the process for erm for June the the Euros and well to a certain extent we 're building up already for any any editor content . |
| 11 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 12 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 13 | You ought to get a bonus scheme up just for that . |
| 14 | Yet the thought of being cooped up indoors for another few hours made her feel almost suicidal . |
| 15 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 16 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 17 | Clubs and other organisations which are set up purely for sporting purposes can not normally be recognised as charities and would not be able to enjoy the relaxations proposed . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 19 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 20 | We 'll have to use all our rehearsal time for Luxembourg too — we ca n't possibly afford to have the full cast up here for longer than three weeks and we 'll need that for the new production . ’ |
| 21 | At the end of the treatment period the subjects with a persistently normal urinary albumin excretion ( less than 30 mg/24 h ) were left untreated and followed up regularly for this variable . |
| 22 | Coincidentally , the England squad team up tomorrow for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Turkey . |
| 23 | This was owned by the skipper who had stocked up well for some unofficial business on his return to Finland . |
| 24 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 26 | ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans . |
| 27 | Liberties , you like to go up there for that do n't you ? |
| 28 | some proverbs , I ca n't think can you complete these proverbs good book up there for that I do n't know at all , there 's something wrong Ooh this looks really good got look at this book , all the streets it 's got like The House of Commons and The House of Lords |
| 29 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 30 | you 'll be up there for seven in the morning |