Example sentences of "come up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far . |
| 2 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 3 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 4 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 5 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick . |
| 7 | take and he used to come up pissed out of his mind at night |
| 8 | ‘ The plants are sometimes wrongly labelled and boxes of mixed plants have been known to come up all the same colour . ’ |
| 9 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 10 | It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ? |
| 11 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 12 | The landlord is not prepared to come up front and say that 's what he 's doing . |
| 13 | But you wanted to come up this way . |
| 14 | Used to come up purple as well as pink . |
| 15 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 16 | What do you think would happen if the Duke of Sutherland 's paintings , which include four great Titians and the Poussin ‘ Seven Sacraments ’ among other masterpieces , were to come up next month ? |
| 17 | Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’ |
| 19 | Philip guided her by the arm into the front entrance and the hall , where a frightening array of girls in uniforms with white aprons and the cook , whom Eileen had known since she was a child , came up one by one and greeted them . |
| 20 | Flora came up close and mouthed , ‘ My flu-u-u-te . |
| 21 | The window at Livingstone Manor came up close . |
| 22 | Sid grinned and said : ‘ You came up that last bit at a fair lick . ’ |
| 23 | Anything that 's , anything that came up that was , that you felt you wanted to tell the others about ? |
| 24 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 25 | I just , Birmingham Region , I think the delegate who came up second about long service ambulance staff and the going down . |
| 26 | The 21-year-old Ulster girl is making her international debut in this tournament and in her first singles match she came up English star Joanne Morley , losing 3 and 2 in a game which saw eight birdies , five from Morley and three from McCool . |
| 27 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 28 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 29 | Erm you you came up this that 's right class one and then class two , and then class three , class four , class five , that 's right , right to the very end . |
| 30 | Again , that came up this morning as well . |