Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 2 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 3 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 4 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 5 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 6 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 7 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 8 | Blake needed to run to keep up with the indignant Doctor . |
| 9 | ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers . |
| 10 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |