Example sentences of "[vb past] up with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 2 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 3 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 4 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 5 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 6 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 7 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 8 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 9 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 10 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 11 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 12 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 13 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 14 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 15 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 16 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 17 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 18 | Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | TRAVEL agent Jacqui Ferguson came up with the right solution to land herself a dream trip round the world . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 25 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 26 | So , after hours in the vaults , the Write Said Fred team ( just me , actually ) came up with the COMPLETE MORRISSEY SINGLES REVIEW FILE ! — now offered for your delight and dissection . |
| 27 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 28 | The design of the cap badge had been the result of a competition which was won by Sergeant Bob Tait who came up with the winged dagger emblem . |
| 29 | Despite that success , the playwright had difficulty raising the money to bring the comedy into the West End , although the backer who came up with the all-important £1,000 needed to clinch the deal was able to retire to a South Sea island on his share of the profits . |
| 30 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |