Sentence examples for lock up for from inspiring English sources

"Investors are more willing to lock up for that kind of play with the right manager".

"It means we can lock up for the night and not be bothered by late arrivals looking for rooms".

Each night, when the museum guards lock up for the day, they hide in bathroom stalls, standing on toilets to avoid notice.

The enemies we kill in war, the convicted prisoners we lock up for life, even the distant workers who manufacture our clothes and toys — how could any society function if the full humanity of all these were taken into account?

A FUN-FILLED life in Saudi Arabia awaits Nawaz Sharif, now that Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, has bowed to international pressure not to lock up for life the man he ousted.

He retired in 1991 after 20 years on the force, just as Mr. Simon approached him with an idea that would probably repulse most retired detectives: spending a year on the streets of a drug-infested ghetto, chronicling the lives of the users and the dealers — the very people he used to lock up — for a book that became "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" in 1997.

People are already being locked up for too long.

Being locked up for so long really damages your spirits.

Most of the women had been locked up for "intemperance".

"They've been locked up for 10 years," he says.

You should be locked up for what you have done.