Example sentences of "and come up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution . |
| 2 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 3 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 4 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 5 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 6 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 7 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 8 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 9 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 10 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 11 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 12 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 13 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 14 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 15 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 16 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 17 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 18 | and came up with the word ‘ Happiness ’ . |
| 19 | We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers … |
| 20 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 21 | In 1972 5,000 researchers in two huge operations took a census and came up with the figure of 1,872 tigers for the whole of India . |
| 22 | An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years . |
| 23 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
| 24 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 25 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 26 | [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ] |
| 27 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 28 | Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter ; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees , listening to what was being said . |
| 29 | And coming up on the rails in the first division are Oxford United . |
| 30 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |