Example sentences of "come up [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 2 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 3 | Homeless people came up with the most poignant things , probably because they 're used to communicating this way . ’ |
| 4 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 5 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 6 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 7 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 8 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 9 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 10 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 11 | But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre . |