Example sentences of "[adv] come up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 2 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 3 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 4 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 5 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 6 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 9 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 10 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 11 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 12 | She 'd be able to think more clearly if she was away from Eastlake , and perhaps come up with the answer as to who was behind these menacing notes . |
| 13 | See the , the Salvation Army only comes up for the |
| 14 | I can always remove it later if something better comes up in the interim . |
| 15 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 16 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 17 | Learn to study ahead of the lectures by using the techniques of chapter 4 in the section on Key words and Pattern of notes and by drawing pattern diagrams for two topics soon to come up in the lecture programme . |
| 18 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 19 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 20 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 21 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 22 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 23 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 24 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |
| 25 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 26 | Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands . |
| 27 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 28 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 29 | All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy . |
| 30 | Sure enough , we soon come up to a party of puffin and a single guillemot . |