Example sentences of "come [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat still and his words seemed to come crawling up the sunlight , over the grass . |
| 2 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 3 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 4 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 5 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 6 | At 12.45pm , a profusely apologetic Mrs Yeltsin arrived in a black Daimler car as Mrs Major came scurrying up the hotel steps to meet her . |
| 7 | We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel . |
| 8 | Connon came trotting up the pavement towards her . |
| 9 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 10 | ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope . |
| 11 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 12 | As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet . |
| 13 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 14 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 15 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |
| 16 | But the great grave ocean comes climbing up the beach . |