Example sentences of "come [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |