Example sentences of "[vb past] up with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 2 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 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 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 5 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 6 | Over the next decade , Xerox caught up with the competition . |
| 7 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
| 8 | I caught up with the others as they were entering the front door of the house . |
| 9 | He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars . |
| 10 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
| 11 | Carrying a cross brought back from Jerusalem before them , the " army of peace " caught up with the Brabançons at Malemort , near Brive , and relieved their outraged feelings in an orgy of slaughter . |
| 12 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 13 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
| 14 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 15 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 16 | The Rector of Londesborough saved the day by giving chase in his car and he and Fred caught up with the horse at the farm gate , waiting to be let in . |
| 17 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 18 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 21 | He watched as Turakina caught up with the pig and rode over it . |
| 22 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 23 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 24 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 25 | Cornelius caught up with the Campbell . |
| 26 | As Joseph caught up with the senator and Chuck , Jacques Devraux appeared on the track ahead , walking quickly back towards them . |
| 27 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 28 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 29 | When I was a lad a man went in the ar , he hooked up with the army if he 'd got no trade and no hope |
| 30 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |