Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] come [adv prt] with the " in BNC.

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1 Despite that success , the playwright had difficulty raising the money to bring the comedy into the West End , although the backer who came up with the all-important £1,000 needed to clinch the deal was able to retire to a South Sea island on his share of the profits .
2 We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers .
3 When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’
4 WHEN Alan Fennah opened his mail he came out with the classic One Foot In The Grave line : ‘ I do not believe it ! ’
5 His wife Jackie , 30 , said : ‘ It was the salesman who came up with the price and they have signed a contract .
6 It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea .
7 It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea .
8 This week she came in with the garment — very nicely knitted but with the sleeves ( in the stocking stitch ) too short .
9 But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society .
10 For these reasons it is the delightful little Concerto which comes over with the greatest conviction though the recording acoustic is far too resonant for the essentially intimate character of the writing ; and the sound in general affords too much prominence to the continuo which booms away in a far from discreet manner .
11 Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’
12 The design of the cap badge had been the result of a competition which was won by Sergeant Bob Tait who came up with the winged dagger emblem .
13 After considerable discussion they came out with the word " numinous " .
14 By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track .
15 The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards .
16 Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock .
17 YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job .
18 Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals .
19 And therefore by a mighty feat of arithmetic we come up with the figure of what , one hundred and twenty eight go for the system by thirds .
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