Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 2 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 3 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 4 | There is a choice of either black or multi-colour stretch fabric to team up with the Jarol yarn colours ! |
| 5 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 6 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 7 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 8 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 9 | Quite a job to keep up with the crane . |
| 10 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 11 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 12 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 13 | The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part . |
| 14 | Though red is the the best colour to come up with the varnish . |
| 15 | On Feb. 18 JKLF commander-in-chief Javed Ahmed Mir announced that he would lead a column from the Indian side of the border to link up with the marchers from Azad Kashmir . |
| 16 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 17 | A TEENAGER began a £135,000 credit fraud spree to keep up with the yuppie lifestyle of his workmates , a court was told yesterday . |
| 18 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 19 | If you were away last week can you please leave space to catch up with the writing which you will do in your own time . |
| 20 | It is not a preaching philosophy , but we ask the bully to come up with the answers . ’ |
| 21 | This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods . |
| 22 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 23 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 24 | When Captain Maestrangelo got back to his office he realized he had eaten far too much too quickly in an effort to keep up with the Substitute . |
| 25 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 26 | This invitation is also open to former members of the Scholarship Scheme , several of whom have found the Summer School an excellent ‘ refresher course ’ , and a way to catch up with the progress of their colleagues . |
| 27 | Consultations with the Lochboisdale management and staff over , it was off to Benbecula Airport to meet up with the Stornoway bound Loganair Twin Otter once again . |
| 28 | A large force , which landed there in July 1346 , proceeded eastwards in order to join up with the Flemings , routed the French at Crécy in August 1346 and captured Calais a year later . |
| 29 | Next day , it 's off to the supermarket to catch up with the shopping — do n't forget the newborn-size nappies ! |
| 30 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |