Example sentences of "[pers pn] came up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state .
2 ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’
3 You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one .
4 And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me .
5 I came up with the idea of having a sale .
6 I came up on the pools !
7 Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap .
8 ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again .
9 Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist .
10 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
11 I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class .
12 When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ?
13 She came up to the wind and headed out to sea as I swung round .
14 Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open .
15 She came up with the placement centre at Heenan House , which was part of the St Joseph 's Hospice for the Dying in Hackney .
16 She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’
17 Checking her skirt pockets , she came up with the car keys .
18 Yes , and Boxing night , she came up with the , er , the same e enormous breakfast , enormous lunch , do you think I might have two lightly boiled eggs wi with er soldiers ?
19 Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty !
20 She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk .
21 She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table .
22 I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’
23 We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary .
24 Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said
25 We came up behind the break and manoeuvred into position and sat on our boards .
26 They came up to the Renault .
27 As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver .
28 They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son .
29 She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’
30 Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by
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