Example sentences of "[noun sg] come up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 2 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 3 | As each slightly shamefaced figure came up to the table , she peered intently at the face , muttered ‘ Sweet or dry ? ’ and then poured from one of her bottles as if administering Syrup of Figs or Cod Liver Oil to the infant sick . |
| 4 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 5 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 6 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 7 | That 's , that 's where the nerve comes up near the skin . |
| 8 | Then there 's the question of whether an extra club comes up from the Vauxhall Conference to replace Aldershot and the possibility of clubs moving to new grounds . ’ |
| 9 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 10 | ‘ The Führer came up with the idea . |
| 11 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 12 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 13 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 14 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 15 | The food , and the mud on our wellingtons , and sometimes the faint tang of cordite coming up from the cellar all give me a good , tight , thrilling feel when I think about them . |
| 16 | In spite of the worry at the back of her mind , she sat down beside her patient and said gently , ‘ As I sat having my breakfast to the sound of church bells , with the sun coming up behind the hills , I think I felt the sort of affinity you must have with Samana . |
| 17 | In more recent times , Al Stewart has donated ‘ Here 's To Warren Harding ’ , recalling how the 29th President was ‘ Alone in the White House , watching the sun come up on the morning of 1921 ’ ; Elvis Costello has resurrected bluesman J B Lenoir 's ‘ Eisenhower Blues ’ ; Tom Paxton advising that ‘ Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation ’ ; while , only a week ago , U96 released ‘ I Wan na Be A Kennedy ’ , just another of the scores of Kennedy songs that have proliferated through rock since ‘ 62 . |
| 18 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 19 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 20 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 21 | And then when the graduates from that process come up with the goods , invest in their innovative ideas . |
| 22 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 23 | This carbon monoxide comes up through the coke and then comes in contact with air at the top of the fire and then burns to give you carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | Though red is the the best colour to come up with the varnish . |
| 25 | He took time out of a busy schedule to come up to the zoo and meet the rather less glamorous , but real , White 's Tree Frog . |
| 26 | AN old friend came up in the street yesterday and said : ‘ My , you look well , have you been on holiday , you 've got a tan . ’ |
| 27 | The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell . |
| 28 | He paused as the first hospital direction sign came up on the road . |
| 29 | His head came up from the bin , and his eyes looked like little flames of candle . |
| 30 | When eventually the moon came up over the edge of the trees he was able to see a group of four men and three horses coming towards him . |