Example sentences of "[pron] come up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 2 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 3 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Likewise David Hart , General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers , who came up with the poetic gem : ‘ The Council is being made more and more the poodle of centralised government . ’ |
| 8 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 9 | It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea . |
| 10 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 11 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 12 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 13 | We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers . |
| 14 | And the two who come up with the best reasons will join the Royal gathering . |
| 15 | As long as you use the ones on the sheet and you come up with the two selection menus . |
| 16 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 17 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |
| 18 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 19 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 20 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 25 | Depends on whether they come up with the same results . |
| 26 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
| 27 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 28 | He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker . |
| 29 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 30 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |