Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him .
2 But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story .
3 The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design .
4 When representatives of the offending authorities are called to account by the Committee , they will need to come up with some better answers to justify their past actions than that members of CPRW are just a fractious minority .
5 Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’
6 Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form .
7 In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype .
8 ‘ Juval Aviv is a very astute investigator who has come up with some very plausible explanations , ’ he said .
9 I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has come up with some further suggestions .
10 But now they ca n't wait to sign up for some tedious opinion poll , so they can tell the News Of The Screws that they think I 'm a layabout , or cast aspersions at my lovely new house .
11 ‘ Our resources are limited , but we hope to come up with some constructive recommendations , ’ said Coun Coppinger after the group 's first meeting yesterday .
12 But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people .
13 the real feeling and we feel we 've got to come up to some sort of a standard .
14 The problem I think comes when you go when you become insolvent , you know , and I think that 's and so therefore unless we 're going to come up with some system where we do insure our pensions as we do our home , then you , you , you 're still back to the basic contract between a company and an individual .
15 ‘ I thought we were all going to end up in some manky frog clink . ’
16 We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 .
17 ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ?
18 If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own .
19 While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers .
20 and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George .
21 I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them
22 Beneath the overwhelming memories of physical delight there were fears — a fear that she might not have measured up in some way .
23 Until then , students will have to put up with some poor lectures .
24 Patrick escaped from the party on the excuse that he needed to check up on some security arrangements .
25 After working through this example try to come up with some other bass line/double-stop ideas of your own .
26 Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ?
27 Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew .
28 A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on .
29 Until now , summarised results data on the National Certificate was not available until well after the end of session to which it related — because of the backlog of outstanding results which had been allowed to build up in some centres .
30 ‘ You 're on the verge of losing it anyway unless you start coming up with some answers . ’
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