Example sentences of "came up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 2 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 3 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 4 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 5 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 6 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 7 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 8 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 9 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 10 | Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern . |
| 11 | ‘ In 189 of the 211 word pairs tested in the simulation experiment , the model came up with the correct parse , in the sense that no other word was more active than either of the two words that had been presented . |
| 12 | TRAVEL agent Jacqui Ferguson came up with the right solution to land herself a dream trip round the world . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 14 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 15 | The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal . |
| 16 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 17 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 18 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 19 | The design of the cap badge had been the result of a competition which was won by Sergeant Bob Tait who came up with the winged dagger emblem . |
| 20 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 21 | Likewise David Hart , General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers , who came up with the poetic gem : ‘ The Council is being made more and more the poodle of centralised government . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Walt Disney came up with the off-beat idea of having popular film and radio star Phil Harris provide the voice for Mowgli 's mellow mentor , Baloo . |
| 23 | It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea . |
| 24 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 25 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 26 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 27 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 28 | He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker . |
| 29 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 30 | If the pattern is facing the other way and the No.2 right-hand light is on , on the 580 , or the left-hand light on , on earlier models , then line the N1 came up with the left-hand point cam . |