Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's nice of the Persil people to come up with a washing-up liquid . |
| 2 | ‘ Because it seems they 've managed to come up with a bone marrow donor . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Generally , if I 'm playing on a track , I 'll listen to the lyrics and then I 'll try to come up with a guitar part that suits the song in terms of imagery . |
| 4 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 5 | Another resolution would force Mr Urban to come up with a merger proposal involving Pirelli 's tyre business in time for Continental 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 6 | After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports , |
| 7 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 8 | ‘ It is important to grow up in a family environment . |
| 9 | There was also , I am told , an explosive ‘ dead dog ’ which floated in canals to fetch up against a lock gate . |
| 10 | What was more , they 've had to put up with a relief milker while their herdsman was laid up with flu . |
| 11 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 12 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 13 | So now you do n't have to put up with a two-star performance from ordinary mercury-free batteries , when there is now a new four star alternative . |
| 14 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |
| 15 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 16 | A former Grand National jockey charged with burglary and deception has failed to turn up for a court appearance . |
| 17 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 18 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 19 | It is too cautious a view , and the evidence is clear from many studies that the earlier the individual is seen the more likely he is to end up with a patent vessel following thrombolysis . |
| 20 | I think it 's unfair to anybody to show up with a tape recorder and ask them on the spot cos it puts them on the spot . |
| 21 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |