Example sentences of "come up [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 2 | Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . |
| 3 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 4 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 5 | One of the slowest vehicles on the road , and coming up beind the world 's fastest production car the Jaguar XJ220 , which has a top speed of 217mph , was making its debut in Banbury . |
| 6 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 7 | Er I come up to draw the President 's attention erm to a problem we have within the delegation and that is that when er Dick called the mover of resolution three eight one in the name of the Lancashire region John who was going to move the resolution was in fact sat in his seat within the delegation . |
| 8 | One is to settle for being a minority government , and hope to collect enough support each time a parliamentary vote comes up to win the day and stay in office . |