Example sentences of "up [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 3 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
| 4 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |
| 13 | and new manager John Gorman could't have dreamt up wished for a better start … |
| 14 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 15 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |