Example sentences of "[Wh pn] come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 6 | It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea . |
| 7 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 8 | good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election . |
| 9 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 10 | I admire several of John le Carré 's novels , particularly The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Perfect Spy , and I like the tension and clever plotting upon which the spy novel depends . |