Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , if granny had heard the shot it would have been all up , but mother would have covered up for him — to the last . ’ |
| 3 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 4 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 5 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |