Example sentences of "save up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 2 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 3 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 4 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 5 | Save up for a holiday . |
| 6 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 7 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 8 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 9 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 10 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |