Example sentences of "had [adv] come up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 2 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 3 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 4 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 5 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |