Example sentences of "[noun sg] come up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 2 | You , dear Ruth , with your successful company , your beauty , your intelligence , how could you let your sensibility come up with the very idea that Maria Luisa 's baby is mine ? ’ |
| 3 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 4 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 5 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 6 | We sat on the bench and watched the sun come up above the eastern ridge and the mist clear like drifting smoke . |
| 7 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 8 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 9 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 10 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 11 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 12 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 13 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 14 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 15 | I was unaware of this and ca n't afford it anyway , so I was pleased when the manageress of the shop next door came up with the bright idea of playing it in my rest room , where the public are not allowed . |
| 16 | The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal . |
| 17 | That 's Pen-y-ghent , that 's Ingleborough and this is Whernside coming up on the left , but first the viaduct at Ribblehead . |
| 18 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 19 | ‘ In 189 of the 211 word pairs tested in the simulation experiment , the model came up with the correct parse , in the sense that no other word was more active than either of the two words that had been presented . |
| 20 | We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in |
| 21 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
| 22 | Financial consultant Richard Bateman totted up all the gifts in the song The 12 Days of Christmas to come up with the hefty bill . |