Example sentences of "up [coord] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 2 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 3 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 4 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 5 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 6 | I 'd sit out in my car , all made up and wait for the stage doorkeeper to come and fetch me . ’ |
| 7 | We thought we 'd just come back up and wait for it , have a little more fun . ’ |
| 8 | Stand up and wait for silence . |
| 9 | Go up and wait for me . ’ |
| 10 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 11 | If you want to ask me something or tell me about something you put your hand up and wait for me to ask you . |
| 12 | Sandra : Shut up and listen for once . |
| 13 | Leading at that stage by two strokes , the conservative thing to do was lay up and settle for a five . |
| 14 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 15 | Only then did he zip himself up and reach for the telephone . |
| 16 | In autumn when the plants have begun to die down naturally the perennials should have their flowered stems cut off at ground level , if not already done , and annuals should be dug up and put for compost . |
| 17 | So if you bagged it up and put for sale on it , fifty pence . |
| 18 | As long as it does not impinge upon another 's needs , get up and fight for your rights , your space and for your needs . |
| 19 | I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re-appear . |
| 20 | ‘ Climb up and see for yourself , ’ said Masklin . |
| 21 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 22 | A spokesman for an industry lobby group , the Atomic Industrial Forum , assured New Scientist that , as the economy picks up and demand for electricity grows , states will reconsider their gloomy assessment of the atom . |