Example sentences of "up for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straightening up for a second time , Anna thought Isobel looked more like a librarian than a deacon . |
| 2 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 6 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 7 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 9 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 11 | 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 . |