Example sentences of "[pron] come up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
| 2 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 5 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 6 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 7 | I came up on the pools ! |
| 8 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 9 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 10 | Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist . |
| 11 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 12 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 13 | I coming up through the floorboards . |
| 14 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 15 | But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians . |
| 16 | It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight . |
| 17 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 18 | The winding-up petition comes after the Court of Appeal last week gave Chelsea a deadline of seven days in which to come up with the money . |
| 19 | I think an example which came up in the Health and Environmental Protection Committee recently , did we really want an AIDS Advice Officer ? |
| 20 | is the aim , what , I mean somebody came up with the aim , in actual fact , despite whatever else you might be doing , whatever politics were behind it , the aim was to prevent AIDS no matter what you were doing , and not to have any kind of prejudice against what you were doing as long as the aim |
| 21 | The Conservatives have been lucky to have a plethora of external think tanks , which come up with the ideas , while being strictly deniable ( the IPPR has somehow not done quite the same for Labour ) . |
| 22 | He himself comes up with the plan of delegation , and he empowers the seventy elders for their tasks once they are chosen . |
| 23 | It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park . |
| 24 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 25 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 26 | It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea . |
| 27 | His wife Jackie , 30 , said : ‘ It was the salesman who came up with the price and they have signed a contract . |
| 28 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 29 | When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ? |
| 30 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |