Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 2 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 3 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 4 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 5 | Certainly Leicestershire 's team manager Jack Birkenshaw has no doubt about the credentials of the 27-year-old quickie , whose career took off when umpire Allan Jones , a former fast bowler himself , advised coming in off a straight rather than a curved run . |
| 6 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 7 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 8 | Now I struggled to come up with a good word or phrase to describe that , but the one we use for now is multicultural . |
| 9 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 10 | The combined force of the rhythm section and the group 's percussive sound meant that Tyson had to come up with a different approach to his playing . |
| 11 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 12 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 13 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 14 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 15 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 16 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 17 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 18 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 19 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 20 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 21 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 22 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 23 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 24 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 25 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 26 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 27 | The waitress from The Crossed Keys , unsuspecting , had come out with a fresh supply of punch . |
| 28 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 29 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 30 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |