Example sentences of "came up [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Adam came up into a kneeling position and waited for the bus to start moving . |
4 | They came up with a 230 horse power sports cruiser happy to have me aboard . |
5 | In 1990 he came up with a middling conclusion : brontosaurs had bones as strong as those of modern elephants in terms of comparative scale . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
8 | However , after a TOP Timeout , they came up with a real solution . |
9 | 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 ’ . |
10 | WHEN the artist Whistler came up with a memorable quip , Oscar Wilde observed wistfully : ‘ I wish I 'd said that . ’ |
11 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
12 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone . |
15 | But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive . |
16 | Edward Nunn , advising on marketing , came up with a possible reason . |
17 | I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution . |
18 | As the arguments raged , Stuttgart came up with a possible solution . |
19 | It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes . |
20 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
21 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
22 | And informal , we came up with a great variety of things . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | They came up with a taxonomic hierarchy : phyla , class , order , sub-orders , genus ( or genera ) and species . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note . |
27 | Defendus came up with a projected energy requirement in 2000 of about twice the current consumption , some 40 per cent of the projection made by the LRPPP . |
28 | But then RHM came up with a bid-defeating plan to split the company in three . |
29 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
30 | They came up with a mock chat show programme in which Williams was being interviewed by Clement Freud , as lugubrious-looking then as now . |