Example sentences of "[noun] came up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biddy came up with Uncle Knacker . |
| 2 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 3 | Hounslow came up with £100,000 after being given a limit of £10,000 . |
| 4 | When the Danzig Polish Accord came up for ratification , the Nazis ordered that all Polish Harbour Board officers should be replaced by German and Danzig officers . |
| 5 | When the permit came up for renewal in 1986 , Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge issued a general permit for the drift-netting to continue . |
| 6 | The lesser charges centred on the unlicensed pistol and stolen car came up for trial on 11th May . |
| 7 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 8 | Last season he was getting loads of stick and his contract came up for renewal — when we were in a potential relegation situation . |
| 9 | Marcus came up to Connor , face to face . |
| 10 | At a subsequent meeting an official added that it would be ‘ most unfortunate ’ if the evidence was being heard at the same time as the project 's grant came up for renewal . |
| 11 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 12 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 13 | Formed The Tourists and had two hits before The Eurythmics came up with classics like Sweet Dreams and There Must Be An Angel . |
| 14 | It 's not so bad in Division Four , and when the opportunity came up at Ards , I jumped at it , ’ said Armstrong , who captained and coached Bangor before going back to end his playing days at Collegians a few seasons ago . |
| 15 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 16 | There were more unrelated Smiths playing against each other in the Triangular Tournament of 1912 , when Tiger of England came up against Dave of Australia . |
| 17 | When this manuscript came up for sale in London in 1980 , its estimated value was £40,000-£60,000 . |
| 18 | When they were about to leave for the restaurant , a man standing near the bar came up to Kevin and said , ‘ If ye 're wanting a place here , the Half House is on the market . ’ |
| 19 | Today the New Inn came up for auction at the Hereford Moat House , along with four other county pubs . |
| 20 | Some fifty years ago the engineers came up with devices that could record the electrical activity of living brains and living nerve cells . |
| 21 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 22 | A little boy came up with lumps of rock in his hand . |
| 23 | When the 1927 Cinematograph Act came up for review , there was agreement that the quota had stimulated domestic production and should be renewed , but that the quickie had to go . |
| 24 | And when the sun came up in no-man's-land , it was hot . |
| 25 | Nils came up with El Paradise , a strip club in Soho 's Brewer Street , It fitted . |
| 26 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 27 | … before they were all sold , a quantity of the same sort came up to town at half the price , so that the rest remained on hand . |
| 28 | That night , Bruce came up to Gore and got Jim drunk again . |
| 29 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 30 | ‘ Like I said , the name came up in passing . |