Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [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 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 3 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 4 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 9 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 10 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 13 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 14 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 15 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 16 | Hope looked down the fell where Colonel and Mrs Moore were strolling with unskilful aimlessness , taking care never to look up towards the two figures on the rump of mountain . |
| 17 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 18 | One should therefore learn how to give orders , and how to put up with the unsuccessful results of one 's efforts ( Notizario , 11,1985 , p. 21 ) . |
| 19 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Not only are the most disadvantaged on the receiving end of most crime , argues Harrison , they also have to put up with the heaviest police presence . |
| 22 | Moreover , the social scientists now began to draw up alongside the social critics in throwing doubt upon the value and achievement of the grammar schools . |
| 23 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 24 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 25 | Before long , I was introduced to the hysterical world of balletomania and had had several overnight trips to Sadlers Wells theatre to queue up for the cheap seats , once even queueing all night . |
| 26 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 27 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 29 | Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders . |
| 30 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |