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 . |