Example sentences of "[verb] up with the [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 | Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 12 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 15 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Match up with the inside edges ( the vertical ring having a slighter smaller outside diameter to compensate ) . |
| 18 | Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes . |
| 19 | Catch up with the latest movies and audio programmes or just sit back and read the papers . |
| 20 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 21 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 22 | Fed up with the cheap plonkers |
| 23 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 27 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 28 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 29 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 30 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |