Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised .
2 Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that .
3 All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’
4 There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York .
5 It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed .
6 On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane .
7 The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle .
8 ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’
9 A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing .
10 From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish .
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