Example sentences of "[pers pn] came up with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 2 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 3 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 4 | Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open . |
| 5 | She came up with the placement centre at Heenan House , which was part of the St Joseph 's Hospice for the Dying in Hackney . |
| 6 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 7 | Checking her skirt pockets , she came up with the car keys . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 12 | They came up with the man with the staff at last . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They came up with the ‘ base force ’ — a ready-for-action assembly of 1.6m men , 12 army divisions , three marine divisions , 12 aircraft carriers and 15 wings ( groups of squadrons ) of tactical aircraft — as the minimum needed to meet the challenges of the post-cold-war world . |
| 15 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 16 | They came up with the idea , what did the form teacher do ? |
| 17 | MEMBERS of Southport Branch 's Service Circle each won 50 Ovations when they came up with the idea to give printed appointment cards to customers . |
| 18 | They came up with the council tax . |
| 19 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 20 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 21 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 22 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 23 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 24 | He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker . |
| 25 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |