Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
| 2 | Navratilova signs up with Lotto |
| 3 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 4 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 5 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 6 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 7 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 8 | Crucially , it 's faster ; it wo n't take an age to scroll through a document , spell checking takes only seconds and you wo n't find yourself waiting for the word processor to catch up with your touch typing . |
| 9 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 10 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
| 11 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 12 | THE recession caught up with Whatman last year , dealing a blow to the Maidstone-based filtration and purification products group 's consistent growth record , with pre-tax profits falling 16 p.c. to £9.21m , on sales £5m ahead at £49.6m . |
| 13 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 14 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 15 | Comrade Li , who did the interpreting for us , got a bit mixed up with his vegetables and statistics , but was good-humouredly prompted by the others . |
| 16 | There was also no lack of opportunity to meet up with your contemporaries in and around the dale — there was even a dance hall of a kind . |
| 17 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 18 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 19 | By mid-June , two things had crucially altered his prospects of victory : first , at Châlons , Judith arrived with men from Aquitaine ; second , Louis the German and a small but experienced force met up with Charles near Auxerre . |
| 20 | By the time the hunter caught up with them , the dogs had all been skewered by the goat . |
| 21 | After six miles and double that number of overtaking vehicles , a car drew up , patiently waiting for my embarrassing clumsy backpacking lurch to catch up with it . |
| 22 | The party still had to cross Loch Arkaig by boat to meet up with his security men who were waiting with a Range Rover , and were clearly becoming worried . |
| 23 | It was a great pleasure to meet up with you again when I became Director of CPRW . |
| 24 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 25 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |
| 26 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sunconnect division is to roll-out the latest version of SunNet Manager , its network manager software , in an attempt to catch up with Hewlett-Packard Co which has just released OpenView 3.0 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
| 30 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |