Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really want someone to come along with an order so I can get on and make half a dozen . ’ |
| 2 | As I thought my parents would still be up , I asked him to come in in an attempt to stop him getting away . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 4 | There were these two men there , talking , and one was saying there was trouble at Serenity , some problem about a ship trying to come down without an Eladeldi registration . |
| 5 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 6 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 7 | The AEF has come up with an idea for such a framework : its design would be based on sound data , put together by world experts ( with advice from those with local experience ) , and monitored by representatives of ( inter alia ) aviation , government and environmental interests . |
| 8 | Knowing how busy you 'll be these next few weeks , I 've come up with an idea that might put your mind at ease and allow Jelka to come to terms with her experience . ’ |
| 9 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
| 10 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 11 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 12 | But unfortunately I have n't quite come up with an answer to the question yet . ’ |
| 13 | They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would say that nobody who has criticised the proposal to sell has come up with an alternative as to how these things are going to be funded , ’ Dr Macmillan said . |
| 15 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 16 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 17 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 18 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 19 | But solipsism is intuitively unacceptable ; and nobody seems to be able to come up with an argument from analogy that will do the trick . |
| 20 | Dolly , quick-witted , did n't take longer than a second to come up with an answer , and one that did n't incriminate Joe . |
| 21 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 22 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 23 | Basically what I like to do is have a conversation about the project and then get the designer to come up with an answer . |
| 24 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 25 | It makes me really happy to come up with an observation that I know will hit home . |
| 26 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 27 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 28 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 29 | This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time . |
| 30 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |