Example sentences of "[vb infin] up with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But first I must catch up with Posh Porky as I do n't ‘ ave much capital left of my own . ’ |
| 2 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 3 | Both jobs will give him time to ‘ catch up with this international chairmanship ’ . |
| 4 | We will never catch up with this galaxy , no matter how hard we try . |
| 5 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 6 | By day of course , why not team up with another couple and get out and about sightseeing or discovering those hide away places that will linger for ever in your memories ? |
| 7 | You could team up with another artist , possibly one who works in a contrasting discipline or technique . |
| 8 | He will team up with American comic Dana Carvey , who played Garth in the smash-hit movie Wayne 's World . |
| 9 | Sue can fetch up with some young twat if she wants to , but I think he 'll have to be desperate as well . |
| 10 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 11 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 12 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 13 | And the twelves 'll cancel and you 'll finish up with eight by six again . |
| 14 | we 'll finish up with right angles first . |
| 15 | we 'll finish up with two negatives one from each O H. |
| 16 | So they 'd finish up with three pieces like that . |
| 17 | And so , it does n't look good if I do n't bring the information in so I 'd better hurry up with that . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd better hurry up with those exercises . ’ |
| 19 | His view of the American situation follows out the formal consequences of earlier complaints by such writers as Nathanael West and Philip Roth , that the American novel can no longer keep up with contemporary reality . |
| 20 | To be admitted to a state school , children must be able to walk , to be continent and show the ability to learn and keep up with normal work . |
| 21 | ‘ The levelling out of investment is worrying because it needs to grow so that UK industry can keep up with international competitors , ’ Mr Sentance said . |
| 22 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
| 23 | The winners are those who can keep up with best standards of quality and reliable supply and still maintain low international prices in a cut-throat business . |
| 24 | Nobody could keep up with all the chemists nowadays , for example ; though someone might from time to time attend enormous congresses of chemists , he or she would go to papers devoted to his or her special branch of the subject . |
| 25 | For example , the US firm , RCA , one of the pioneers of TV technology and the first to produce a commercial monochrome TV set in 1946 , could not keep up with later developments , was bought by GE during the 1980s and is now owned by the French firm , Thomson . |
| 26 | And it maybe about a relationship that will build up with these people over a period of time and I know it 's expensive as negotiation . |
| 27 | Every time the gel on the other end tried to bring the conversation to a polite close , I 'd crank up with another round of exasperatingly slow , repetitive , thread-losing , stammering ramblings . |
| 28 | I do n't understand how you think , and I ca n't poke up with all this anger and jealousy . |
| 29 | The bubbles were supposed to expand and meet up with each other until the whole universe was in the new phase . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , Franco agreed that the Italians could spearhead the attack on Madrid from Guadalajara , as part of an ambitious Italian plan to tighten the circle round the capital by advancing in a south westerly direction towards Alcalá de Henares , where they would meet up with Spanish troops marching north-eastwards from the Jarama , across the Madrid–Valencia road . |