Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 3 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 4 | Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes . |
| 5 | The two met at a rally and decided to team up for the Charrington RAC . |
| 6 | The large crowd that crammed into the new men 's toilets at COLDALE TROJANS ground last month were disappointed that guests of honour , the Nolan Sisters , failed to turn up for the opening . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 8 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 9 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 10 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 11 | Andrew Green , the present lord of the manor , and his wife had driven up for the day from Essex . |
| 12 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 13 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 14 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
| 15 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 16 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 17 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 18 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
| 19 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 20 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |