Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 2 | Jomeo is endearingly accident-prone and forever unsuccessful with females ; Gigi , by contrast , is wildly popular with the opposite sex and has made up for her childlessness by becoming a universal aunt to other females ' babies . |
| 3 | We go through the dozen or so photograph albums that Christine has made up for her , and Anna points out her grown-up ‘ sisters ’ , Christine and Sarah-Jane ; she also names her nieces and nephews for me . |
| 4 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 6 | He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland . |
| 7 | ‘ The girl Alison has lined up for you . |
| 8 | SCREEN beauty Daryl Hannah has signed up for her biggest role yet . |
| 9 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 10 | The Danish star has signed up for his ninth successive year with the club . |
| 11 | When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer 's the turnips he 'd stacked up for his sheep . |
| 12 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 13 | The Copleys wo n't have waited up for me . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | They had queued up for it , even if the committee people had worried about it . |
| 16 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 19 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 20 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 21 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 22 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 23 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 24 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 25 | Should choke the Manc hordes who 've coughed up for it . |
| 26 | Already Lavender 's scheming mind was going over the possibilities that this water-jug job had opened up for her . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And all these pleasures , these frail joys that her most stringent discipline over the last couple of night-time hours had summoned up for her memory , they were simply not enough . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've stuck up for you long enough , ’ she said . |
| 30 | She obeyed him , sinking on to the wooden chair he had pulled up for himself . |