Example sentences of "come up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |
| 2 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 3 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 4 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 5 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 6 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 7 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 8 | When profits fails to come up to the mark , corners may be cut . |
| 9 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder if you 'd care to come up to the stable at the house and help me box a pair of geldings of mine ? ’ he was inquiring . |
| 11 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
| 12 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 13 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He took time out of a busy schedule to come up to the zoo and meet the rather less glamorous , but real , White 's Tree Frog . |
| 16 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 17 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 18 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 19 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 20 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 21 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 22 | He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it . |
| 23 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 24 | A BP survey , for example , revealed that barely 30 per cent of internal reports in that organisation came up to the mark . |
| 25 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 26 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 27 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 28 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 30 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |