Example sentences of "coming up [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 2 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 3 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 4 | This is the path coming up to the house and you 've got the green like that between there and there , there 's a gap , I do n't know how I 'm gon na do that |
| 5 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 6 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 7 | Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal . |
| 8 | The sky had clouded over ; the cloud coming up from the desert and spreading over the whole wide sky in a matter of minutes . |
| 9 | A row of thatched cottages is strung along the lane coming up from the sea and opens into a forecourt in the front and at the eastern side of the house . |
| 10 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |