Example sentences of "come up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | it 's come up a wee bit . |
2 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
3 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
4 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
5 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
6 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
7 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
8 | The days of reading philosophy , politics , and economics , called PPE , came up a good deal . |
9 | Broadhurst , who shot 68 , and Woosnam , 71 , were already in the clubhouse on that mark when Rystrom and Torrance , the last pair , came up the final fairway . |
10 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
11 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
12 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
13 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
14 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
15 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
16 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
17 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
18 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
19 | So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer . |
20 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
21 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |