Example sentences of "came up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 2 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 3 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 4 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 5 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 6 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 7 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 8 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 9 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 10 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 12 | But as they were returning with all speed , Rodrigo of Bivar raised the country , and came up with them in the mountains of Oca , and fell upon them and discomfited them , and won back all their booty , and took all the five Kings prisoners . |
| 13 | Came up before me on the bench once . |
| 14 | Very quietly , I came up behind them through the trees , and called out to them in English . |