Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] up with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 5 | They did not enter into lengthy explanations about the sanitary and social implications of such behaviour , because the recruit had more than likely spent his entire life spitting on the floor at home ; the recruit responded to an order backed up with the threat of violence . |