Example sentences of "come up [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 2 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 3 | We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere . |
| 4 | ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said . |
| 5 | There was something else that came up out of the minutes . |
| 6 | Inside his head , beneath the odd blaze of hair , behind the reckless display of freckles , the same low horizon unrolled , the same milk-crate stacks of Council flats came up out of the east , like this , slowly turned , just so , and fell away into the west , like that … |
| 7 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |
| 8 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 9 | He watched the Pfalz D VIIs coming up out of the east , with all the loathing and resignation of a slum-dweller who sea yet another street-brawl lurching his way . |
| 10 | Wait a while longer for the adult insects to hatch and come up out of the soil . |
| 11 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |