Example sentences of "[vb pp] up with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 32 | No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one . |
| 33 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 34 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 35 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 36 | Fed up with the cheap plonkers |
| 37 | ‘ She is fed up with the naval life ? ’ |
| 38 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 39 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 40 | Fed up with the snail-like pace , the market yesterday began to entertain the possibility that the group itself may now be on the block . |
| 41 | And , despite what the media claimed , Reagan was not elected because people were fed up with the huge federal deficit and were clamoring for budget cuts … . |
| 42 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 43 | Older reporters fed up with the declining standards of Fleet Street ; younger ones condemned to the grind of sycophantic local newspapers owned by disinterested big groups ; good freelances — all were ready to start work . |
| 44 | Northern Irish film-maker and writer Niall Leonard , fed up with the humourless stereotyping of his birthplace , has tried to break away from that image . |
| 45 | Like most activists , Isaacs is fed up with the sloth-like pace with which governments are taking on environmental concerns . |
| 46 | It was then , when she thought about it , that she decided that she was just a little fed up with the bossy brute . |
| 47 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 48 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 49 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 50 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 51 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 52 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 53 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 54 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 55 | Kevin Coley was rumoured to be fed up with the dreadful Napiers and looking for a new senior professional . |
| 56 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 57 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 58 | These have to be matched up with the mounting holes in the new motherboard . |
| 59 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 60 | The bed was crisply made up with the be-frilled white broderie anglaise bed-linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie-Christine and Jacques . |