Example sentences of "coming up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were coming up to a twist in the precipitous road ; as we swung round it , the wheels screamed and we seemed to swerve towards the edge of the precipice . |
| 2 | If you really do n't feel like coming up for a smear at that time , that 's fine and we 'll understand why . |
| 3 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 4 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 5 | There are a lot of enthusiasts coming up with a lot of good ideas but the information never gets out . |
| 6 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 7 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 8 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |
| 9 | Any scientist coming up with a set of laboratory in vitro tests that accurately predicts the behaviour of a material inside a patient 's mouth would be dearly loved by both government and industry . |
| 10 | We 'll take more of your calls later , but coming up in a couple of minutes all the top action from the Scottish League . |
| 11 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |