Example sentences of "i come up " in BNC.

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1 You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one .
2 After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage .
3 ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ?
4 ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself .
5 I came up for air .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me .
9 It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak .
10 As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier .
11 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
12 I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees .
13 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 .
14 ‘ You spoke like someone else when I came up to you .
15 Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked .
16 ‘ 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 !
17 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 .
18 I came up with these answers :
19 I came up with the idea of having a sale .
20 When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs .
21 I came up .
22 One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was .
23 I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others .
24 He could n't get away when I did , so I came up on my own .
25 The one I came up with eventually was ‘ indescribable ’ .
26 I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class .
27 I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly .
28 It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster .
29 erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about .
30 The first time I came up against a woman comandante …
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