Sentence examples for fetched up with from inspiring English sources
So in New York, that's the group I fetched up with, the musical theatre crowd.
She passed through 17 boarding schools until she fetched up with a guardian in New York, and eventually returned to Montreal aged 18.
A tax collector named Joseph Pannone (since jailed) was his initial contact, and through him Freitas fetched up with Ead, with whom he sought to arrange the purchase of some vacant lots owned by the city.
Her fantasies turn instead to what presents she'd like if she fetched up with a billionaire (an iPad. An Audi. No, a Saab! Nope, I feel cheap. OK, OK, just the Saab, and some clothes, ooh, a bikini, for $541 … what a terrible waste, and yet how pert my breasts look).
"If you don't talk to the reasonable people," said Chris Patten, the EU's commissioner for external relations, "you fetch up with fewer reasonable people to talk to".
On the road, he fetches up with Blunt, who plays a thoroughly messed-up woman calling herself Mike, short for Michaela, and it seems she's pretending too.
Stella fetches up with Mac, a comfortable older man, whose diverse domestic talents include making "special bolognese sauce with chicken livers".
Also idly taken by the name Kensington, he fetches up with his telephoto lens and an eye for a pretty lady, and is soon leching at attractive local Lydia, who no longer bothers with her disguise of brown contact lenses.
She fetches up with ageing cowboy Gay Langland, played by a grizzled but sympathetic and charismatic Clark Gable – perhaps an older version of the cowboy Kirk Douglas played in Lonely Are the Brave.
The truth about the peasant diet was that it consisted largely of our most fashionable food, polenta, to the extent that many immigrants fetched up at Ellis Island with pellagra, the nasty illness cause by a niacin-deficient diet of nothing but maize porridge.
The first sale last year raised almost €12m, with tomes fetching up to 10 times their estimated price.
