Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 3 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 4 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 5 | The shift in the importance and growth of manufacturing within the national economy has been bound up with a similar change in the geography of manufacturing . |
| 6 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 7 | In open rock pools , Bullheads , Taurulus bubalis , Dragonets , and Gobies , are some of the small fish that can be scooped up with a small net , together with Hermit Crabs that can be spied trundling over the bottom . |
| 8 | It was so different from other Christmases I had known that it ought to have remained like a beacon in my mind , but I know that my strongest memory of Christmas will always be bound up with a certain little cat . |
| 9 | Under the merger terms , a French-based holding company known as RVC will be set up with a French-appointed chairman . |
| 10 | The postal surveys are to be followed up with a small number of interviews . |
| 11 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 12 | A cute , easy-to-wear smooth shape can easily be dressed up with a real 70's ‘ glam rock ’ influence . |
| 13 | Used alone , they can be dressed up with a bright dash of kohl or mascara ; try Revlon 's Wild Violet Eye Shaper and Pencil and Chanel 's new Aqua Violine Mascara Aquaresistant , and the Lilac or Periwinkle mascara shades from Christian Dior 's new Mascara Parfait collection . |
| 14 | As young children , Peter and his sister Norah , were brought up with a strong emphasis on Ukrainian culture . |
| 15 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 16 | All this ( the play not the soap ) is wrapped up with a fair degree of barbed wit with Finney acting big and bold as Alfred , with Stephen Moore more cagey and devious as Michael . |
| 17 | As an example , we look at the case in which an initially isothermal column of liquid is set up with a stable salt gradient in it ; the base of the column is then heated . |
| 18 | Their nihilism is jumbled up with a mystical affirmation of experience ( horror for the Buttholes is awe-full ) but also with humour ( they 've advanced through parodying successive rock idioms , exaggeration improving each one by making it more extreme ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , he 's taken up with a divorced woman yon end of Gosforth , I understand . |
| 20 | The SHV objective is to end up with a significant stake in Burmah , perhaps as much as 29.9 per cent . |
| 21 | The remainder of the book is taken up with a detailed study of the acquisition and restoration of D–CDLH ( ‘ D–AQUI ’ , ) now operated by Lufthansa as a promotional exercise . |
| 22 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 23 | The Resources Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) was set up with a brief ( RAWP 1975 : 5 ) : To review the arrangement for distributing NHS capital and revenue … with a view to establishing a method of securing , as soon as practicable , a pattern of distribution responsible objectively , equitably and efficiently , to relative need . |
| 24 | This trial was followed up with a double-blind , placebo-controlled trial in which twenty-three patients given homoeopathy were compared with twenty-three matched patients given placebo ; all patients being , in addition , on standard conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — these being matched in the two groups . |
| 25 | The initial draft received many letters of comment from both camps and was followed up with a public debate in Glasgow . |
| 26 | A large portion of the large room was taken up with a large number of very large men . |
| 27 | If only the English attempt to legislate against slow over rates was backed up with a different small-print . |