Example sentences of "[vb past] up with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 2 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 3 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
| 4 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 5 | The distributaries will build levees of the coarser parts of their load , while the areas between will be occasionally flooded , built up with finer sediments , converted into swamps and so become sites of the formation of peats and organic muds . |
| 6 | Each successive echo from a bat 's own cries produces a picture of the world that makes sense in terms of the previous picture of the world built up with earlier echoes . |
| 7 | Later the wolf would be cut open while she was asleep , filled up with heavy stones once the little pigs had scrabbled out of her , stitched up again by the woodcutter ; and then she would be driven by thirst to the river , would topple in and drown with the weight of the stones . |
| 8 | For example , when different colleges came up with similar proposals , it was suggested that they might co-operate in the development work . |
| 9 | BTR cuts : BTR , the industrial conglomerate that won a fierce takeover battle for the Hawker Siddeley engineering group , came up with pre-tax profits at the top end of City expectations yesterday . |
| 10 | In one year , 30 per cent of the workforce at the up-scale Marriott Marquis in Atlanta came up with 2800 suggestions to improve service . |
| 11 | And she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the the new Wandsbergh development . |
| 12 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 13 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 14 | The the careers service came up with two tapes which was nice . |
| 15 | Various individuals came up with useful sums . |
| 16 | The Kalkadoon did not have words for European artifacts and ideas but they soon came up with new words as the need arose . |
| 17 | THE HOPEFULS came up with new supercars : famous names from the past — BRM , Iso Allard , Monteverdi — and new names for the future : Yamaha and , ; most of all , McLaren , eligible for awards next year when production of the F1 starts . |
| 18 | If some interviewees left everything to you and just came up with standard answers and showbiz cliches , Bob Monkhouse was not remotely in that category . |
| 19 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 20 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
| 21 | In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics . |
| 22 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 23 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 24 | The accountant realising he would not be fobbed off , tried harder and came up with some facts . |
| 25 | However , perseverance paid off and , after melting and filtering 256 tonnes of ice , the team came up with 10,000 micrometeorites . |
| 26 | The American Express survey compared holiday prices in more than a dozen countries and came up with these contrasts : |
| 27 | I came up with these answers : |
| 28 | The original Ethernet cabling is now known as 10base5 ( a US standards body called IEEE came up with these names ) . |
| 29 | The CAT came up with three recommendations . |
| 30 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |