Example sentences of "[pron] came 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 think an example which came up in the Health and Environmental Protection Committee recently , did we really want an AIDS Advice Officer ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 18 | It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea . |
| 19 | His wife Jackie , 30 , said : ‘ It was the salesman who came up with the price and they have signed a contract . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ? |
| 22 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 23 | She came up to the wind and headed out to sea as I swung round . |
| 24 | Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open . |
| 25 | Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty ! |
| 26 | She came up with the placement centre at Heenan House , which was part of the St Joseph 's Hospice for the Dying in Hackney . |
| 27 | Checking her skirt pockets , she came up with the car keys . |
| 28 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 29 | We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary . |
| 30 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |