Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] came up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 2 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 3 | TYCOON Richard Branson yesterday came up with the Christmas present for the person who has everything — the chance to pilot a jumbo jet . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 6 | The Macedonian question reportedly came up in discussions between Lukanov and his Yugoslav counterpart Ante Markovic in the Yugoslav city of Nis on May 30 , although it was not mentioned in the subsequent communiqué . |
| 7 | Rebecca Hall then came up with four other volunteers … all of whom admitted they were n't farmers . |
| 8 | The AFPFL members of the Council therefore came up with an announcement intended for public consumption as much as for adoption by the Council . |
| 9 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 10 | In the interviews themselves the topics sometimes came up in different sequences according to the way that the particular interview developed . |
| 11 | It was no different in the occupied West Bank where the protesters soon came up against army reinforcements . |
| 12 | But Tandri now came up with the bright idea of charging an exorbitant additional fee for every island we needed to call at en route . |
| 13 | As Hugh Paddick remembers : ‘ People then came up to him and asked for his autograph . |
| 14 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 15 | They had temping agencies , job centres , local papers the job centre only came up with about two people . |
| 16 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 17 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 18 | However even with nine representatives of British industry on the working party , the report only came up with two specific problems . |
| 19 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 20 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 22 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The survey also came up with 10 reported cases of cataracts , which can also be caused by radiation exposure . |
| 26 | Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day . |