Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] up for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 2 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 3 | You did n't turn up for a meeting two weeks ago . ’ |
| 4 | The old man did n't turn up for a week , and then two weeks and then three weeks and everybody was fairly in despair . |
| 5 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 6 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 7 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 8 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 9 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |