Example sentences of "come up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour .
2 From the urgency of new single ‘ Fight ’ to the Snowboy-fuelled groove of ‘ Lucky Fellow ’ , McKoy have come up with the goods .
3 and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods
4 At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster .
5 Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) .
6 Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson .
7 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
8 Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves .
9 This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods .
10 This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions .
11 Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods .
12 It is not a preaching philosophy , but we ask the bully to come up with the answers . ’
13 Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running .
14 It is essentially a problem-solving exercise in which there must be a close relationship between sales effort on the ground and the ability of the applications and research staff to come up with the answers , within the boundaries of what is commercially viable .
15 It had not been hard to persuade Brian to come up with the fees for university .
16 However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days .
17 So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two .
18 I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges .
19 Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it .
20 Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men .
21 Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle .
22 As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face .
23 When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ?
24 The keeper called , ‘ Sue , Sue — come here , ’ and a young leopard came up to the bars and rubbed herself against them while he stroked her back .
25 Problems came up with the musicians .
26 Through a selection of combos including Carlsbro , Ampeg , Vantage , Vox and Dean Markley the A2 came up with the goods easily .
27 He really came up with the goods .
28 In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years .
29 We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers
30 Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed .
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