Example sentences of "came up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed . |
| 2 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 5 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Adam came up into a kneeling position and waited for the bus to start moving . |
| 10 | In 1990 he came up with a middling conclusion : brontosaurs had bones as strong as those of modern elephants in terms of comparative scale . |
| 11 | Supply sergeants scouring Saudi shoe-shops came up with a bewildering variety of non-regulation footwear : zippered beige Saudi military desert boots , Omani army boots , Israeli army desert boots , even imported hiking boots . |
| 12 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 13 | However , after a TOP Timeout , they came up with a real solution . |
| 14 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 15 | WHEN the artist Whistler came up with a memorable quip , Oscar Wilde observed wistfully : ‘ I wish I 'd said that . ’ |
| 16 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 17 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
| 18 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 19 | Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone . |
| 20 | But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive . |
| 21 | Edward Nunn , advising on marketing , came up with a possible reason . |
| 22 | I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution . |
| 23 | As the arguments raged , Stuttgart came up with a possible solution . |
| 24 | It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes . |
| 25 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
| 26 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
| 27 | And informal , we came up with a great variety of things . |
| 28 | Fittipaldi came up with a solid lap of 117.617 to edge out the Ford Cosworth-powered Lola of Mansell , who produced a lap of 117.443 despite his off-course excursion . |
| 29 | They came up with a taxonomic hierarchy : phyla , class , order , sub-orders , genus ( or genera ) and species . |
| 30 | A woman came up with a red balloon and asked him to autograph it , and he took out a fountain pen and commenced a squeaky signature . |