Example sentences of "up for [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon he will be up for Oscars and head over heels in the switchback strip of movies . |
| 2 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 3 | Now that both the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister have comprehensively rubbished those assurances , will the Secretary of State for Scotland have to eat humble pie again or will he stand up for Scotland and make this a resignation issue ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 5 | Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it |
| 6 | Rosellina was on her way to Rimini , to work in a children 's village set up for orphans and children who had become separated from their families . |
| 7 | Such a rejection of state and vanguard party with its accompanied space opened up for pluralism and difference is of potential significance for left political culture today . |
| 8 | Thus Aintree 's recall man for the past seven years became the sacrificial offering so that the Jockey Club bigwigs could get on with more important business like tarting themselves up for Ascot and tea with the Royals . |
| 9 | Here the idle-up facility will be used to set the model up for aerobatics and the normal throttle action used for general flying . |
| 10 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 11 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 12 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 13 | Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they 're catching up on it now . |
| 14 | In addition , the existing nurses , who were given undertakings when the trust was set up that their posts would be protected , are now being told that all their jobs are up for re-examination and that anyone seeking extra education will soon be told that someone else is waiting to take her position — |
| 15 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 16 | You have to enfranchise people to question these things and to take actions , telling them everything 's up for grabs and they have the right to make changes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 18 | A fifth CNAA Committee would be set up for Art and Design , and pending a reconstitution of the Council 's committees and boards in 1975 the present NCDAD members were being asked to serve as a nucleus of the future committee . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 21 | She 'd never sign up for marriage and mortgage , that was for sure . |
| 22 | And a little untidy period of play but here 's Lewis to Ormanroyd Speedy sets it up for Greyson and in it goes again towards Agnew the captain and did that cross the line yes it 's a corner . |
| 23 | ‘ Two sets of twins , all boys , as indicated by the horoscopes drawn up for Lucia and Michele , which greatly influenced her father 's decision to allow them to marry . ’ |
| 24 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 25 | The plaintiffs were the informers against the keepers of the disorderly house who had first pleaded guilty and then later been called up for judgment and sentence . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got 19 players with contracts up for renewal and want a new manager installed as quickly as possible , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It did n't turn up for practice and so many questions were asked that the race organisers pinned a notice on the control room window saying : ‘ We have NO news of the BRM . ’ |
| 28 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 29 | The telephone bureau put 400 lucky numbers up for auction and the stampede among the notoriously superstitious Chinese pushed average bids to $10,000 and beyond . |
| 30 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |