Example sentences of "up for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 2 | A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM . |
| 3 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 4 | Stich in time : Michael Stich set himself up for Wimbledon with victory in the Stella Artois championships . |
| 5 | Best hoot of the lot was the gladiatorial look dreamt up for Spurs by Jimmy Jumble . |
| 6 | The follow up for morbidity of gastric cancer shows increased risks in the years after starting cimetidine treatment . |
| 7 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 8 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 9 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 10 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 11 | Was up for re-election in May this year , nineteen ninety two . |
| 12 | Some will be up for re-election in two years . |
| 13 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 14 | Both England stars started their careers at Acklam Park , Middlesbrough , and youngsters , aged nine to 14 , can now learn to run with the ball and line up for line-outs with the Rugby Union course on the same turf . |
| 15 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 16 | The old lads had hoped to warm up for Hull with a friendly against Cleveland police the previous week , but most of the constabulary failed to turn up . |
| 17 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 18 | rising up for air like a diver , |
| 19 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 20 | HELP the Aged 's shops are warming up for winter with a special promotion of woollies , wellies and waterproofs . |
| 21 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |
| 22 | Renewed prospects opened up for preferment in Ireland . |
| 23 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 24 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |
| 25 | Then more of our staff were called up for service with Queen Alexandra 's Imperial Military Nursing Service . |
| 26 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 27 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 28 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 29 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 30 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |