Example sentences of "[verb] up for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 3 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 4 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 5 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 6 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 7 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 8 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 9 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 10 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 11 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 12 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 13 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 14 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 17 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 20 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 21 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 22 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you might be otherwise involved — signing up for a television series , perhaps . ’ |
| 24 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 25 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 26 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 27 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 28 | ‘ And to keep that feeling together I will try and make arrangements that we can all team up for a leisure day . ’ |
| 29 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 30 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |