Example sentences of "[verb] up for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 2 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 3 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 4 | We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 6 | Added up for each of our 800,000 sows , this would take the British herd to the moon and back 30 times . |
| 7 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 8 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 9 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 10 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 11 | The week begun with Dalglish dominating Merseyside once again in the build up for this special occasion . |
| 12 | Two hundred riders will line up for this marathon . |
| 13 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 14 | We 're too grown up for that … " |
| 15 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |
| 16 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night . |
| 18 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 19 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 20 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 21 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 22 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 23 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 24 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 25 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 26 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 27 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 28 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 29 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 30 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |