Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up with the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money .
2 She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her .
3 ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter .
4 We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night .
5 Apparently he 'd fixed up with the travel agency which handled Dalgety 's bookings for you to join him at all the Grands Prix . ’
6 Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ?
7 Thomas needed to catch up with the shapechanger .
8 What happened after that was that divisional FA representative Arthur Clark took up the case and more sedentary media throughout Britain puffed to catch up with the Backtrack exclusive .
9 But they , they did come up with the work on the results , and then they , they did get time to plan it .
10 That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans .
11 Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ .
12 But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park .
13 According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " .
14 And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one .
15 Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS .
16 So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill .
17 Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever .
18 He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected .
19 Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started .
20 Ginny had never been able to understand why Ralph continued to put up with the expense and inconvenience of a London solicitor ; the legal advice he received at Lincoln 's Inn was available far more cheaply in Paulstock .
21 ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing .
22 So he just had to put up with the noise .
23 We had to put up with the traffic .
24 He had been ten weeks in the bush , a womanless bush , and Olga Stych had to put up with the fact .
25 Lorton had woken up with the desire to take communion .
26 They did n't show when the lectern was down , but imagine the audience 's laughter if they had popped up with the lectern and the speaker .
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