Example sentences of "up with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |
| 2 | okay , do n't say blue , because otherwise you 'll get it mixed up with asphyxia |
| 3 | Charlotte stepped into the first compartment and sat down , the station was now a hive of activity , Charlotte leaned out of the window and watched the guard 's van being loaded up with milk churns , sacks of mail , and boxes of red roses . |
| 4 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has at last caught up with milk , writes MAGNUS GRIMOND |
| 5 | yeah oh it might be there but then they , they do erm , they do say as they get older they get er fed up with milk and they eat and you know the , they do sometimes |
| 6 | If you wan na follow that one up with customer it needs how it 'll work |
| 7 | In pensive vein he had published ‘ an early warning ’ in The Favourite Game against those who would follow ‘ our future leaders , the war babies ’ ; for the simple reason that while the world convulsed in its madness and death-throes , ‘ we grew up with toy whips , ’ ‘ games ’ played by old and young alike . |
| 8 | The poor little mite has the colic , but I have dosed him up with laudanum . ’ |
| 9 | All but one of the females produced broods over the weeks , but the smallest female filled up with fluid and died instead of delivering the expected babies . |
| 10 | Once in government in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Hall 's deregulatory message was taken up with alacrity . |
| 11 | Lucy 's eyes lit up with warmth when she saw her . |
| 12 | Saunders is fed up with speculation linking him with other clubs , Newcastle being the latest to show an interest , following Spurs and Aston Villa . |
| 13 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 14 | A sub-committee for conferences is , therefore , to be set up with responsibility for all the conferences organised under DAB 's auspices ; this subcommittee will subsume the Annual Congress Committee . |
| 15 | All this , besides the preliminary pasting of the wrapper , coloured paper and sandpaper had to be done 144 times for 2¼d , and even this is not all , for every drawer and case have to be fitted together , and the packets tied up with hemp . |
| 16 | The 3.2-mile dual carriageway will take heavy traffic away from Birchfield Road and Kingsway , ending a 20year campaign by residents fed up with noise and fumes from as many as 50,000 lorries and cars which use the road each day . |
| 17 | The ease of transferring from one public service scheme to another and the fact that your pension keeps up with price increases are important factors to consider when comparing them with private sector schemes , which generally do not keep up with inflation and where you can lose out if you leave . |
| 18 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 19 | VIRGIN is teaming up with Blockbuster International to set up a chain of international mega-stores . |
| 20 | But the path became narrower , more overgrown , and eventually petered out altogether , choked up with bracken and creepers and snarls of wild raspberry plants . |
| 21 | She was shaking again , the image of the cat 's disembowelled corpse twisting her up with revulsion . |
| 22 | The " Origins of Religion " is coming up with Year One in two weeks time … |
| 23 | Motability was set up with government backing in 1977 with the aim of helping disabled people to use their mobility allowances to achieve greater value for money . |
| 24 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 25 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 26 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 27 | How much time is spent in backtracking and catching up with work ? |
| 28 | It is hoped to follow up with work on the teaching and assessment of scientific investigation in the National Curriculum . |
| 29 | The trouble is that term starts tomorrow , and I 'm rather tied up with work . |
| 30 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |