Example sentences of "[verb] come up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 3 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 4 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 5 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 6 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 7 | This is why Kiddi-Proof has come up with the Ovensafe and Grillsafe — covers in heat-retardant plastic which can be clipped on to almost any make of appliance . |
| 8 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 9 | One good piece of news — alas not definite , since it is still subject to possible changes — is that at the moment the European legislation process has come up with the idea that the national definitions of ‘ antique ’ for weapons will apply when the European harmonisation takes place . |
| 10 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 11 | AT&T has come up with the ComputerWatch service , calling it a breakthrough for system security administration . |
| 12 | While British Rail says it ca n't afford to help disabled travellers at Leominster , it has come up with the cash to improve a commuter line that 's been plagued with delays and breakdowns . |
| 13 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 14 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 15 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 16 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 17 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 18 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 19 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 20 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 21 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 22 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 23 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 24 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 25 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 26 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 27 | They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year . |
| 28 | It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer . |
| 29 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 30 | I reckon he 'll probably come good in time , but we ca n't afford to leave it too long to wait for both him and Deano to start coming up with the goods . |