Example sentences of "[vb past] come up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 2 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 3 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 4 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 5 | You came came up by train ? |
| 6 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 7 | BULL CHIEF ORDERED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN TO SURVIVE WITHOUT STATE SUBSIDY … |
| 8 | BULL CHIEF ORDERED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN TO SURVIVE WITHOUT STATE SUBSIDY … |
| 9 | Maybe that very quickly he started coming up with lyrics and that he and I got on well right from the off , Well , not quite from the off . |
| 10 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 11 | Could I just come in there and I do know an undertaker and this subject did come up in conversation . |
| 12 | She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground . |
| 13 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 14 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 15 | They had seen that the volcano was in eruption even before dropping anchor ; many of them had come up on deck to see the spectacle . |
| 16 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 17 | This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable . |
| 18 | She was asking what Steve had come up with job wise she said if ever I wanted a C V writing Graham 'd do it for me |
| 19 | The next day or the day after perhaps , when they had talked a lot about the commune project , Mary had come up with Bella 's name . |
| 20 | ‘ Feel this , ’ he said to Merymose , who had come up in turn . |
| 21 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 22 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 23 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 24 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |
| 25 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |