Example sentences of "up for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball set up for to drive it straight into the wall Speedy then tried the shot Oldfield takes over . |
| 2 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 3 | Because that 's all he 's got , his knowledge that we 're happy ; it 's got to make up for hating what he does every day to keep us safe . |
| 4 | Not satisfied with her cut from the sale of foreign cars , Elena also asserted her prerogative with regard to the distribution of the standard Romanian car , the Dacia 1300 , making party officials pay up for getting a car ahead of others in the queue ( which , as usual in Romania , seemed to grow ceaselessly ) . |
| 5 | and all the companies that are responsible for for re-using it and all the distribution network is set up for collecting an an sending it from here to there you know , once that network is going then surely |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll lock you up for stealing this . ’ |
| 7 | The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines . |
| 8 | In other words , you could ride into the ring with a home-made hard hat that would have to be accepted if it had a ‘ harness secured to the shell at more than two points ’ , but they can pull you up for wearing black jodhs ! |
| 9 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 10 | Morning chats crew you up for righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , bombing in Dart catamarans or practising with trapezes , while novices practice on Toppers in the local area . |
| 11 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 12 | We gave Undry up for lost then , and , binding our power to the three Treasures we had left , we healed the breach and built up the wall ever higher and stronger . |
| 13 | Moreover , as a result of the £500000 Oxford project , archaeologists will have to give up for dating only a tiny portion of their specimen , 1 milligram or less . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 16 | In addition to providing a regular preventative maintenance service they are also well set up for dealing with emergency work on a 24 hour basis . |
| 17 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 18 | You get done for , pulled up for speeding or parking or something and you can pay your own fine . |
| 19 | I locked her up for soliciting , disorderly behaviour , and assault . |
| 20 | Let's move on before some young copper picks us up for soliciting . |
| 21 | It is important that we do not get away from the fact that , when any charge is laid , there must be evidence that will hold up for convicting somebody of that charge . |
| 22 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 23 | CREES was a department geared up for asking awkward questions |
| 24 | CREES was a department geared up for asking awkward questions about the general trend of Soviet development if the evidence warranted it . |
| 25 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 26 | On one of them she was picked up for questioning by the Germans . |
| 27 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 28 | Eleven suspects were rounded up for questioning in other Basque towns the same day . |
| 29 | Palestinians in the territories were placed under curfew and as many as 1,300 alleged Hamas sympathizers were rounded up for questioning . |
| 30 | Do you hope that Steve will come looking for me and then you can string him up for making love to her before you did ? |