Example sentences of "[pron] came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said .
4 The door opened , and someone came in from the night .
5 Whilst I was there , someone came out of the gatehouse and started walking towards me .
6 He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop .
7 Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them .
8 Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again .
9 When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed .
10 ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws .
11 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 .
12 ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’
13 Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name .
14 ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it !
15 Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible .
16 Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked .
17 It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak .
18 I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off .
19 Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use .
20 I came up with the idea of having a sale .
21 You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one .
22 I came up on the pools !
23 Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap .
24 I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly .
25 The first time I came up against a woman comandante …
26 ‘ 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 .
27 Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist .
28 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 .
29 I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class .
30 I came along with the Maxteds .
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