Example sentences of "had come up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 2 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 3 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 4 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 5 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 6 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 7 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 8 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 9 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 10 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |