Example sentences of "and [verb] up with the " in BNC.
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1 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
2 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
3 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
4 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
5 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
6 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
7 | She refused to look upon herself as an invalid , but it might be sensible to take a tonic , say , during the coming winter months , and to catch up with the loss of sleep she had so cheerfully endured . |
8 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
9 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
10 | We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers … |
11 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
12 | In 1972 5,000 researchers in two huge operations took a census and came up with the figure of 1,872 tigers for the whole of India . |
13 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
14 | and came up with the word ‘ Happiness ’ . |
15 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
16 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
17 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
18 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
19 | This vast stocktaking and forward-planning exercise was commissioned by Richard Luce in 1990 , and drawn up with the aid of 44 discussion papers and 3,000 participants . |
20 | Their job is to try and keep up with the train on nearby roads and hopefully help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
21 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
22 | Derby 's Mark Pembridge , Andy Melville of Oxford and Portsmouth 's Kit Symons came safely through their games and joined up with the squad last night . |
23 | The original Promenade line terminated at the gates of Claremont Park at Cocker Street , but it was important for the tramway to serve the developing northern end of the town and link up with the new Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad at the Gynn , opened in 1898 . |
24 | It is also a serious setback for hopes of reinstating passenger trains on the line to go beyond Redmire to Hawes and link up with the Settle-Carlisle line . |
25 | In The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) , Lockwood plays a ruthless woman who enters the house of an old schoolfriend as a governess and takes up with the man of the house . |
26 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
27 | Peel off the lining paper and roll up with the sugared paper . |
28 | The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience . |
29 | The Mercedes burst into flames and broke up with the burning wreckage being thrown among the spectators . |
30 | The baby is able to walk after an hour and to keep up with the herd when it is on the move , but it is nonetheless very unsteady on its feet and needs continual help . |