Example sentences of "up with any " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 2 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 3 | Why put up with any foreign troops on German soil ? |
| 4 | Manufacturers seem to think we 'll put up with any old crap ! |
| 5 | But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ . |
| 6 | She knew Maggie was very sensible and that she would n't take up with any riff-raff , nor would she do anything she should n't . |
| 7 | Though neither Reagan nor any of his aides has formulated it in so many words , I think that the failure of standard economic remedies has created a kind of desperation , and , like a jilted lover , the administration is ready to take up with any attractive candidate . |
| 8 | ‘ Lee Mavers is not always the easiest person to get on with and Townshend is the sort of person who does n't have to put up with any shit . ’ |
| 9 | Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them . |
| 10 | Once you have a pair you can link up with any of the nine interchangeable lenses in the Supervisor range . |
| 11 | So it will be interesting to see if Sugar 's financial advisers Kleinwort Benson can come up with any more cash . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , dear … ’ she said faintly , unable for the moment to come up with any stronger remark although Miss Needham could probably have obliged . |
| 13 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't hear you coming up with any better ideas . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Listen to me , young lady , ’ she said under her breath , ‘ I 'm not putting up with any tantrums . |
| 16 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
| 17 | All that would have to go before he took up with any woman . |
| 18 | Collaborating with IBM 's Hampshire-based Hursley Park Laboratories will also be useful from a strategic viewpoint as it will enable Compuware to keep up with any other IBM CICS developments , particularly moves to implement the system for new environments , for instance the AS/400 . |
| 19 | Perhaps I 'll be unpopular here , but in fact until you think of a way preventing vandals from vandalising the toilets , as you know , I do n't think there is , nobody has come up with any other way of doing it . |
| 20 | Yes yeah , I , I 'm also very disappointed that er er , in the negotiations that they did n't er er , come up with any sort of housing erm I think the , it 's mucking any future negotiations with other partners or developers , speculators whoever they may be , I think it 's important that we have , er we strike a balance between bu houses for sale and rented accommodation because , I mean they need to now the building er , this house for sale and each time we we we we knock down flats or building and ga gave the land free of charge to the speculators we have to de-count people , those people are moving th the existing te er people on the waiting list and they 're getting moved further and further back and er I think i i i it 's a very worrying situation where we are continually giving land free of charge and they 're getting no rented accommodation . |
| 21 | HM Inspectorate are not in a position to follow such discussions up with any kind of sustained support . |
| 22 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 23 | He glanced at his watch ; less than five minutes , and as he trotted along to intercept the postman 's route he could n't come up with any plan that seemed remotely workable . |
| 24 | ‘ He had n't come up with any specific reason . |
| 25 | The only names to crop up with any regularity by then were Isabelia Penny , Mary Ryan , Ellen Redmond , Mary Connor , Ann Kinsala and Jane Fearon . |
| 26 | So , can we come up with any speculations about relatively probable ways in which cumulative selection might have got its start ? |
| 27 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 28 | She hoped he would n't come up with any suggestions about spending the evening together . |
| 29 | So far I have not been able to come up with any musical symbol that has not been catered for , whether arranging for full orchestra , brass-band or choir — with the single exception of guitar chord symbols . |
| 30 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |