Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they had all come up with very little . |
| 2 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 3 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 4 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 5 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |
| 6 | By now it was dark , with just two small desk lamps throwing clear-cut areas of light : one at a typist 's table halfway down the room where Maxim had finally met up with a pint of cold lager , one at the desk where Dann was listening on the telephone and sipping a small glass of neat gin . |
| 7 | That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance . |
| 8 | A yawn took her by surprise ; her long day and the worry about Dana , to say nothing of the arrival of Roman Wyatt , had finally caught up with her . |
| 9 | Athelstan was sure the murderer was in the Tower and equally certain that some evil deed from the past had finally caught up with Sir Ralph . |
| 10 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 11 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 12 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 13 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 14 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 15 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 16 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 17 | He had recently split up with Hermione and was suffering from bruised emotions and in a way , was very much alone in the world , not to mention totally penniless — he did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 18 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |