Example sentences of "he [verb] up with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes .
2 In 1990 he came up with a middling conclusion : brontosaurs had bones as strong as those of modern elephants in terms of comparative scale .
3 ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago .
4 Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution .
5 He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker .
6 Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle .
7 As the layers of paint bubbled under the heat , he followed up with a broad-bladed scraper , peeling off brown sludge in smoking strips .
8 Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk .
9 Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’
10 He was knocked around so much by his father that he ended up with a crooked leg , but he must have had some courage , because he was the only one of his clutch to survive .
11 That apart , he ended up with a black dresser , Irish drinking pals , Jewish bosom friends ( he once introduced Elizabeth Taylor to my father — ‘ Have you met my little Jewish girl friend , Mr Misell ? ’ ) and so it went on .
12 WHEN publican John Cockerton , 40 , caught a cold on a sunshine holiday island , he ended up with a medical bill for £2,200 .
13 He stood up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back .
14 He comes up with a little piece of advice on how to make that picture , or the colouring , or the mounting better .
15 To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair .
16 If he comes up with the right solution then the destiny of the championship could be decided .
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