Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 2 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 3 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 4 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
| 5 | You , dear Ruth , with your successful company , your beauty , your intelligence , how could you let your sensibility come up with the very idea that Maria Luisa 's baby is mine ? ’ |
| 6 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 7 | The " Wildlife Enhancement Scheme " , which is to be trialled in the Culm Measures of Devon and the Pevensey Levels of Sussex , will offer annual management payments in return for agreement from landowners/occupiers to manage the land for conservation , on the basis of a plan drawn up with the local English Nature officer . |
| 8 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 9 | There 's a chance to catch up with the latest Scottish news in our evening bulletin . |
| 10 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 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 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 13 | After a lengthy period of looking , one respondent ended up with the following list of constructs : |
| 14 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 15 | One finger , one thumb , keep moving This song builds up with the appropriate actions so the second verse is : ‘ One finger one thumb one arm keep moving . |
| 16 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 17 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 18 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 19 | I was unaware of this and ca n't afford it anyway , so I was pleased when the manageress of the shop next door came up with the bright idea of playing it in my rest room , where the public are not allowed . |
| 20 | The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal . |
| 21 | Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music . |
| 22 | The top end finishes up with the three-over-two layout of Gotoh black chrome machines . |
| 23 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 24 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 25 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 26 | ‘ In 189 of the 211 word pairs tested in the simulation experiment , the model came up with the correct parse , in the sense that no other word was more active than either of the two words that had been presented . |
| 27 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 28 | This means tilting the rear mortise to line up with the front leg , which will mean in turn that the side rail will not line up exactly with the back leg . |
| 29 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 30 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |