Example sentences of "[verb] up with [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them .
2 As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down .
3 On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do .
4 Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues .
5 By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below .
6 To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme .
7 ‘ We 've come up with a few names .
8 Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth :
9 The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems .
10 To come up with the right emotions for the President of the World , though hard work , was still so much easier than identifying her own .
11 Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks .
12 Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge .
13 ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with .
14 Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention .
15 Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests .
16 In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies .
17 He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew .
18 But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’
19 What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them .
20 Match up with the inside edges ( the vertical ring having a slighter smaller outside diameter to compensate ) .
21 Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes .
22 I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces .
23 Catch up with the latest movies and audio programmes or just sit back and read the papers .
24 We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook .
25 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
26 Fed up with the cheap plonkers
27 I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters .
28 Older reporters fed up with the declining standards of Fleet Street ; younger ones condemned to the grind of sycophantic local newspapers owned by disinterested big groups ; good freelances — all were ready to start work .
29 I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things .
30 Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases .
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