Example sentences of "come up [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er er whether or not it 'll be the same faces c l as come up and do it er But it it should n't make that much difference . |
| 2 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 3 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , we had a erm , I had an aunt and uncle , they lived in Southend , and they used to like to come up and perform em , he had a violin and she used to play the piano , and my erm , father did n't really care for the music , but they liked sort of opera and stuff like that |
| 6 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 7 | He supposed the Parents ' Association would make a rota of some sort , to come up and do it . |
| 8 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
| 9 | It ai n't funny , y'know , gettin' a steamroller to come up and suffocate me , and me in an unwell condition . |
| 10 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 11 | As I same I 'm I 'm You know , to be a bother like , but I thought well I 'd be best to come up and see you I could have just have asked for an another prescription . |
| 12 | Miranda began , again , addressing herself to the young girl , ‘ While I 'm getting ready , would you like to come up and see my room ? ’ |
| 13 | I 'll have to come up I 'll have to come up and see your |
| 14 | Are you going to come up and join us ? |
| 15 | That 's when they used to come up and put it in the straight on to the station . |
| 16 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 17 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 18 | anything about coming , and yet Jenny came up and told me that she was coming on Friday , er before I got that letter , got that letter the next day |
| 19 | Cos somebody came up and told me which is even more rude . |
| 20 | Matt was peeing in the river when one of the sparks came up and told him it was n't a good idea . |
| 21 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 22 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 23 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 24 | No , she said that she came up and asked you if you wan na go out with Emma |
| 25 | I was talking to Mike McFarlane when Allan came up and interrupted us and spoke to Mac , looking me over but not saying anything to me . |
| 26 | He came up and touched my breast through my nightdress . |
| 27 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 28 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 29 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 30 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |