Example sentences of "and come up [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 6 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 17 | [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ] |
| 18 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |
| 19 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 20 | Football clubs , football supporters er and parliaments have got to talk between themselves to try and come up with a solution . |
| 21 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 22 | Six months later , however , the Society , with UMF 's agreement , hired Touche Ross to look at UMF 's business and come up with a plan of action . |
| 23 | All told that is some 69,370,000 square miles ( and 173,700,000 cubic miles ) of sea ( though the Scottish mapmakers Bartholomew omit all the waters south of Australia , as well as the Timor and the Savu Seas , and come up with a total of 67 million square miles ) . |
| 24 | ‘ We decided that the best approach was to minimise the risk and come up with a way of assessing the quality of the reservoir as we drilled ’ says Mitchell . |
| 25 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 26 | Then , when I come to do my illustrations , I can put the sections together in whatever combination I like , and come up with a castle of my own . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Everybody here has studied U2 's success and come up with a step by step guide of how to make it in the music business . |
| 28 | if , they ca n't , they 've got this system when they can key it in you know and comes up with a price , but it 's that bloody strip |
| 29 | Lucker prods around and comes up with a sachet of sugar . |