Example sentences of "[to-vb] up with a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 2 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 3 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 4 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 5 | It 's a contract which the community is well aware of as the brewer has invited local people to come up with a name for the new pub . |
| 6 | Actually , the BMC does n't know all the details yet and it 's highly probable you 'll have to come up with a bit of cash yourself , but if you 're keen call Roger Payne on . |
| 7 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 8 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 9 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 10 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 11 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 12 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 13 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 14 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 15 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 16 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 17 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |
| 18 | William Wilson , chief constable of Central and chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers ( Scotland ) , described the delay as disappointing and said he would be pressing the Scottish home affairs minister , Lord Fraser , to come up with a solution at a meeting on 1 March . |
| 19 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 20 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 21 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | Dogs , on the other hand , have to put up with a range of 1 dioptre all their lives . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 24 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 25 | At football matches or at confrontations at seaside resorts the police have to put up with a lot of abuse . |
| 26 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 27 | He conducted himself impeccably , he was open and honest and had to put up with a lot from the press and media . |
| 28 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 29 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 30 | On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane . |