Example sentences of "and [verb] up with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 2 | Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution . |
| 3 | Simon 's daughter , Pippa , a beauty of six who had one blue and one green eye , swarmed watchfully into the room on her stomach with Thomas 's encouragement and bounced up with a war whoop behind the chairs of two sleeping visitors . |
| 4 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 5 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 6 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 7 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 8 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 9 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 10 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 11 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 12 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 13 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 14 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 15 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 16 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 17 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 18 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 19 | The two Britishers , Cyril ( McKern ) and Amos ( Alec Guinness ) are making a pilgrimage to the battlefields that scarred their lives , and meet up with a group of Americans : D-Day veteran Waldo ( John Randolph ) , his daughter Beverley ( Geraldine Chaplin ) and an enigmatic widow Lisa ( Lauren Bacall ) . |
| 20 | Treading Water is a frantic track , powered by pumping bass and chinking rhythm guitar , whereas Harlequin , a possible single , opens with a slab of techno keyboards and ends up with a guitar solo . |
| 21 | ‘ And Cawthorne buys loadsashares and ends up with a bum company . ’ |
| 22 | Question : What starts off life as a salmon , goes to a plaice and ends up with a sole ? |
| 23 | It becomes a very resourceful swineherd — multiplies its pigs on forest acorns — and ends up with a lot of triumphant slaughter and roast pork and crackling . |
| 24 | He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob . |
| 25 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 26 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 27 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |
| 28 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 29 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 30 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |