Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 2 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 3 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've stuck up for you long enough , ’ she said . |
| 5 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 6 | But , needing something to do after being ditched from pop show The Word , she has signed up for acting lessons at the famous Lee Strasbourg School . |
| 7 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 8 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 9 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 10 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 11 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 12 | She did n't want him to think she had dressed up for him , or anything . |
| 13 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 14 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
| 15 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 16 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 17 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 18 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 19 | What 's the next production that you have lined up for ? |
| 20 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 21 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 22 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 23 | PLUS there are those gorgeous jewels we 've lined up for you . |
| 24 | competition Three of the best We 've gone competition potty this month and any guitar here in the Guitaristoffice which has n't been nailed down we 've got up for grabs . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 26 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 27 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 28 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 29 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 30 | They had queued up for it , even if the committee people had worried about it . |