Example sentences of "[pron] came up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 2 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 3 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 4 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 5 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 6 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 7 | As they sat there someone came up and , as was not unusual , joined them in their conversation . |
| 8 | I reckon hed kick someones bollox if someone came up to do that to him . |
| 9 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
| 10 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 11 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 14 | I came up for air . |
| 15 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |
| 16 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 17 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 18 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 19 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 20 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 21 | I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees . |
| 22 | There was a rustling from the long grass down the hill — yes , it was the path I came up yesterday ( was it only yesterday — or a million years ago ? ) and Vern reappeared out of the undergrowth . |
| 23 | ‘ You spoke like someone else when I came up to you . |
| 24 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 26 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 27 | I came up with these answers : |
| 28 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 29 | When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs . |
| 30 | ‘ I came up . |