Example sentences of "come up [prep] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | To prevent a messy legal battle , the TODAY casting couch has come up with alternative stars for the role of Liz and seventh husband Larry . |
2 | ‘ I 've run fifteen variations of that conversation , and every one has come up with different motivations for the Doctor . |
3 | A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
4 | Guy 's come up with this patent for a new system from America which cuts turn-around time in the garment-sewing factories by some amazing percentage and — ’ |
5 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
6 | It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care . |
7 | Spirits dashed , Fonda and Hopper came up with another idea for a picture called The Queen , starring themselves and Jack Nicholson as Robert McNamara , Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson apparently plotting the assassination of John F. Kennedy . |
8 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
9 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
10 | Do you think it 's right then , that an appraisal should come up with those surprises for you ? |
11 | But even though there is water everywhere , I just ca n't help wondering what excuses our profit-hungry water authorities might come up with next year for increasing our water rates rather than reducing them now the rains have come . |
12 | His report comes up with six options for cutting the network from its present 16 600 kilometres . |