Example sentences of "they came up " in BNC.
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| 1 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 2 | She just put a dash of bleach in the water and they came up lovely . |
| 3 | They came up to the Renault . |
| 4 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 5 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 6 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 7 | They came up with a visionary scheme to raise money for musical equipment . |
| 8 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 9 | They came up with a 230 horse power sports cruiser happy to have me aboard . |
| 10 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 11 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 12 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 13 | They came up with the man with the staff at last . |
| 14 | They came up with a far better deal than I could have got on my own . ’ |
| 15 | They came up with a taxonomic hierarchy : phyla , class , order , sub-orders , genus ( or genera ) and species . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , they came up with this slogan , which originally was ‘ Everything We Do , We Do For You ’ which was uncannily similar to the Bryan Adams song , which came out a little while afterwards . |
| 17 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
| 18 | And so there was a second lot of market research commissioned from a different organisation , and they came up with an even better picture ! |
| 19 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 20 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 21 | They came up together , clasping their offerings . |
| 22 | The costs they came up with included satisfaction ( other than simply getting by without trouble ) ; real communication with colleagues ; idealism ; and self-respect ( can you really like yourself ? ) . |
| 23 | ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects . |
| 24 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 25 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 26 | They came up with the ‘ base force ’ — a ready-for-action assembly of 1.6m men , 12 army divisions , three marine divisions , 12 aircraft carriers and 15 wings ( groups of squadrons ) of tactical aircraft — as the minimum needed to meet the challenges of the post-cold-war world . |
| 27 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 28 | We asked five GH staff what their best beauty buys of all time were , and they came up with some interesting products . |
| 29 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 30 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |