Example sentences of "come up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 2 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 3 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 4 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 5 | Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’ |
| 6 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 7 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 8 | If he happened to come up the way . |
| 9 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 10 | Yeah , mm , now do you want to come up the town ? |
| 11 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 12 | He came up the week before on his own but he played two rounds every day . |
| 13 | Horses and carts were the only means of transport until an infrequent bus service came up the valley to add a further lifeline . |
| 14 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 15 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 16 | Standing under the vaulted fan roof of that incredible building , listening to the pure soprano of the leading choir boy singing , ‘ Once in Royal David 's city ’ as the choir came up the aisle , it was difficult to restrain our tears . |
| 17 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 18 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
| 19 | While she was working , Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a basket of jharo , the resinous wood that 's gouged from deep inside the trunks of the oldest , tallest pine trees , then cut into chips and burned for lighting . |
| 20 | Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a cockerel . |
| 21 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 22 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 23 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 24 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 25 | Bars of sunlight broke through the slatted windows and swept back and forth across the floor , and the smell of the sea came up the carriage bearing memories of childhood outings . |
| 26 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 27 | Wilkie came up the sand and arranged her return with M. Grimaud . |
| 28 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 29 | Martha came up the companion , followed by a boy very much taller than she was . |
| 30 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |