Example sentences of "up with [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Master specialist Bruno Meissner of Zurich , tied up with moving into new London premises , is not taking part . |
| 2 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 3 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 4 | Obviously at the moment we we all of us are really tied up with living from a Tuesday to a Saturday really you know with Tuesdays our meeting and then all that has to be done after that and then Saturday is the food parcels you know so and most people work as well either part time or full time work at home er with the kids and bringing up families so and obviously also money is shor short for people that are directly involved in the strike so erm . |
| 5 | Fed up with living in ‘ little boxes all the same ’ , they want to stamp their own personality on an older building and have the chance to lovingly shape a new home exactly as they want . |
| 6 | You get er rather tied up with looking after Marcus and his sister . |
| 7 | I think she would of been better as a teacher , because as Joan says she is er very taken up with looking after children |
| 8 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 9 | And I 'm fed up with hearing about her . |
| 10 | TREVOR FRANCIS is fed up with hearing about how Sheffield Wednesday will miss strikers David Hirst and Mark Bright for tomorrow 's UEFA Cup return with Kaiserslautern at Hillsborough . |
| 11 | — presenting evidence in support of and against various positions which might be taken up with regard to the issue ; |
| 12 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 13 | When I think about it they did ha erm , but I 'm fed up with talking about school ! |
| 14 | Unfortunately I am completely tied up with filming during the whole of June but I will certainly make the effort to visit you some time in July . |
| 15 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |
| 16 | Jefferson resigned from Downton International shortly afterwards , and put it about that he was fed up with working with such a large company . |
| 17 | This time round , how patiently will touchy Poles put up with working to German standards for German bosses in German-owned firms ? |
| 18 | there is a growing trend for people to tell their boss : ‘ I 'm fed up with working in a smoky office ’ . |
| 19 | Most have their own premises with libraries set up with advise from the London secretariat . |
| 20 | That , you know , in many of the words you came up with to start with , there 's an element of of fashion , in avoid ageism , avoiding sexism , and things like that . |
| 21 | Fed up with waiting for $15m , one group of creditors filed a petition in an American court in March to force MGM-Pathe into liquidation . |
| 22 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 23 | ‘ It must have , ’ said Liz , who sat there , burning , burning , eaten up with longing for worlds beyond her sister 's guessing : a pale effigy , locked up in imaginings . |
| 24 | Okay so there 's lots of showing somebody , actually demonstrating how something is made then doing it together step by step and as you say follow up with going through the whole stage not just making the plane but actually demonstrating how it works . |
| 25 | Police time and manpower will be taken up with travelling to the court and the number of officers available for ordinary police duties will be reduced during court sittings . |
| 26 | After a visit by the secretary of state to the estate in 1982 , a trust was set up with backing from the local authority ( Knowsley ) , the Abbey National Building Society and Barclays Bank . |