Example sentences of "and come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution .
2 What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation .
3 Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference .
4 He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn .
5 As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door .
6 When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich .
7 He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn .
8 In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad .
9 There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution .
10 Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away .
11 Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time .
12 ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint .
13 The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port .
14 As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute .
15 There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men :
16 We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects .
17 I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government .
18 She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell .
19 I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little .
20 A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation .
21 The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel .
22 Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet .
23 I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident
24 and came up with the word ‘ Happiness ’ .
25 We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers
26 Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed .
27 In 1972 5,000 researchers in two huge operations took a census and came up with the figure of 1,872 tigers for the whole of India .
28 An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years .
29 They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood .
30 They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch .
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