Example sentences of "[indef pn] came [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 2 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 3 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
| 4 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 5 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 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 few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 8 | Someone came back with him to plug in a telephone . |
| 9 | The door opened , and someone came in from the night . |
| 10 | Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably . |
| 11 | Whilst I was there , someone came out of the gatehouse and started walking towards me . |
| 12 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
| 13 | Someone came out behind him , but Charlie was blocking her . |
| 14 | Most of the children said they could n't remember any bits they liked ; eventually , with much prompting and nagging , everyone came up with something . |
| 15 | At the wedding , everyone but everyone came up to me to say , ‘ It wo n't be long before it 's your turn too , ’ or something similar , and each time somebody said it , I grew increasingly resentful . |
| 16 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 17 | AST Research Inc 's agreement to buy Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing business will shoot the Irvine , California company up to fourth place in the US market ahead of Dell Computer Corp and behind Apple Computer Inc , IBM Corp and Compaq Computer Corp — but why should anyone want to buy a personal computer manufacturer — after all no-one came in for bankrupt Everex Systems Inc : the answer is that the deal includes full access to Tandy 's retail stores — AST will supply machines to be sold under the Tandy brand name ; the plant in Scotland is also an attraction . |
| 18 | nothing came out of the last committee meeting to a definite , this is definite this . |
| 19 | Nobody came out of the alley . |
| 20 | Lambert dived , but nobody came out of the basket . |
| 21 | You know , when somebody came up with Mehetabelle , or something like that . |
| 22 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 23 | is the aim , what , I mean somebody came up with the aim , in actual fact , despite whatever else you might be doing , whatever politics were behind it , the aim was to prevent AIDS no matter what you were doing , and not to have any kind of prejudice against what you were doing as long as the aim |
| 24 | Somebody came up to me and said , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 25 | just ignore , I 'd , I 'd ignore the person , what , so if somebody came up to me and said you go out with Henry in it ? |
| 26 | Somebody came out of the room , and into the dark passage . |
| 27 | If somebody came back from lunch late without having informed him , he really berated the offender . |
| 28 | I was called away one morning , somebody came along to me and said will you come along to Street , there 's a chap playing up , old Harry , he 's trying to build a shed or something and it 's two o'clock in the morning , none of us can sleep , do come along with me . |
| 29 | But Caspar said this was unlikely ; the Draoicht Suan would probably keep everyone inside Tara asleep until somebody came along with the counter-spell . |
| 30 | I remember somebody came in at the shop and says the Newminster School had been sent home , but where , which school 's that ? |