Example sentences of "up for [art] rest [prep] " in BNC.

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1 No-one could be spared to get fresh cots , so these men from farthest Arran and the Rhondda Valley sat up for the rest of the night with a brown baby under each arm .
2 ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said .
3 ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’
4 ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’
5 One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’
6 The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus .
7 It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon .
8 But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life .
9 I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today .
10 Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day .
11 For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him .
12 ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’
13 Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season
14 you know this is so she says oh I 'll probably see ya , er one night she was er cutting all the up for the rest of the week like , she said do you want a bet on the the big race this Saturday ?
15 let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives .
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