Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year . |
| 3 | so while our climbers rest and enjoy the sea air we can now catch up with the rest of the sporting action … |
| 4 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 5 | Obviously they 're as hung up as the rest of us . |
| 6 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 7 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 8 | He added , however , that former Sunderland player Billy Bingham , the Northern Ireland manager , might be prepared to reach a compromise with his old club possibly allowing Rogan to play for at least part of the match against Swindon and then link up with the rest of the squad on the day of the international . |
| 9 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 10 | Michael Hughes , who met up with the rest of the party here in Frankfurt last night , is likely to be given a more forward role supporting Dowie . |
| 11 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 13 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 15 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 16 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 17 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 18 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 19 | Every day John and his mum go over his schoolwork to make sure he keeps up with the rest of the class . |
| 20 | The same is true of the health service , the more the private health educa the pri private health welfare comes in , the less chance there is of people who are , who are articulate and people who count in British society start speaking up with the rest of us and saying come on we we 've got a common interest and a common stake in this service and we want the best po for for everybody and the same will start happening in housing if you get your way . |
| 21 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 22 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 23 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Colonel Seawell kept up with the rest of the Group OK . |
| 26 | I mean you can go up on the rest of the week , but the day before the holiday and the day after the holiday the |
| 27 | Instead of answering his own question , Rafiq let out a high-pitched wail , which was taken up by the rest of the men . |
| 28 | It is expected that the Home Office will come up with the rest of the money . |
| 29 | Got to try and come up with the rest of them that 's how they done it , a couple of days after somebody re-enact that again . |
| 30 | A massive reduction in beds erm will have , no doubt , a follow up in the rest of the United Kingdom , with its inevitable result on health care and jobs . |