Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.

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1 I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think .
2 The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire .
3 I 'm , I 'm the only one working now , they 've , they 've all packed up for the day .
4 Erm my father received the recorder and tapes and is enthusiastic about getting recordings for us , and that 's all set up for whilst he 's in Scotland next week .
5 So all of this is all set up for you .
6 What fun to have them all lined up for inspection …
7 All dressed up for a good cause
8 CROCODILE Dundee star Paul Hogan is all fired up for his new role as a Wild West outlaw .
9 Flemish and Spanish doors , slabs of different coloured marble , stone surfaces , panelling , good mahogany , were all snapped up for background effect .
10 He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) .
11 WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific .
12 And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village .
13 We 'll get that dried up for you .
14 In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes .
15 Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale .
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