Example sentences of "[adv] come up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 2 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 4 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 5 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 7 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 8 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 9 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 10 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 11 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 12 | Kevin Ball , making his first appearance since being helped off the field in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich with a knee injury , started tentatively but gradually settled down to come up with his usual solid , no-nonsense performance . |
| 13 | Now it , now it , he says it 's getting quite serious now , cos apparently came up with erm these four cases where erm the people have lived an absolutely normal pure life |
| 14 | However even with nine representatives of British industry on the working party , the report only came up with two specific problems . |
| 15 | They had temping agencies , job centres , local papers the job centre only came up with about two people . |
| 16 | Computer expert , Andrew Eccleston , explains that they were fed up with old-fashioned forecasting methods , so came up with something new . |
| 17 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 18 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 19 | But a survey on , let us say , political questions , which suddenly came up with questions about husband-wife relations , would almost certainly result in the questions being queried at the very least . |
| 20 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 21 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 22 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 23 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 24 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 25 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 26 | Now that 's a question that we can all come up with at times , whether we 're Christians or non-Christians , we come up and we question , where is God in this situation ? |
| 27 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 28 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 29 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 30 | Sir Robin Day searched a long memory for some event remotely comparable , and could only come up with Edwina 's famous threat to handcuff herself to the rostrum until hanging was brought back . |