Example sentences of "came up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 2 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 4 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 5 | So , after licking another 485 stamps , she came up with a manifest of eight people , one Sloth , Gan Moondork ( one of Nintendo 's escaped bionic mutations ) and Gan 's woman ( the Rubber Dummy ) . |
| 6 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 7 | Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins . |
| 8 | And this particular night she went into the yard , the yard door was shut , she went into the yard and was standing , looking at the moon — when the ticket lad came up with a ticket for me father . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Space-age French designer Andre Courreges came up with a classic in 1964 that has been much copied since — the mid-calf , soft kid , white boot for women . |
| 11 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending . |
| 14 | Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two . |
| 15 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 16 | In the case of the Stewartfield development , Glasgow-based architect Geoffrey Reid came up with a design for a building , which , while functioning as a supermarket , retained a considerable amount of character , using traditional Scottish building materials . |
| 17 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Several years ago a small group of people sat down to consider this problem and , after a great deal of discussion and argument , came up with a six-point-plan for new legislation with the special needs of Wales in mind ( although they are also relevant to other countries inside and outside the UK ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 22 | Cassidy came up with a number of objections to the granting of a faculty . |
| 23 | we came up with a number of figures . |
| 24 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 25 | She came up with a routine for visiting the tables , and even managed to empty a few ashtrays . |
| 26 | Intellectual stimulation was not easy , but the care manager came up with a group of volunteers , all of them computer buffs , who were able to communicate with the man on his level . |
| 27 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 28 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 29 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 30 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |