Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 2 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 3 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 4 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 5 | Alexandra , sorting through the enormous bundle of charitable appeals that Aunt Emily kept bound up with blue tape , asked absently , ‘ What is it ? |
| 6 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 7 | These people had turned up with uncanny speed . |
| 8 | KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions . |
| 9 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 10 | Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man . |
| 11 | Despite repeated rape and electric shock , Paulina never mentioned the name of her lover , who married her after she was released , though he had taken up with another woman . |
| 12 | It did n't feel like it , in spite of the decorations she had put up with such care , and the pile of letters and parcels waiting on the table to be opened tomorrow morning . |