Example sentences of "had come up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 2 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 3 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 4 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 5 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 7 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 8 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 9 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 10 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 11 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 12 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 13 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 14 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 15 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 16 | Ten years before that , ICI had come up with a world first with its Steam Naphtha reforming Process for the production of ammonia , methanol , hydrogen and town gas . |
| 17 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 18 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 19 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 20 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 21 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 22 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 23 | I got there — the message had come up via the landlady . |
| 24 | Hence , by the 1920s and 1930s , only a tiny minority of Burmese politicians had come up via the ladder of education and training in Britain , by which Gandhi , Jinnah and Nehru had risen . |
| 25 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 26 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 27 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 28 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 29 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 30 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |