Example sentences of "came up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 2 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 3 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 4 | He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | A BP survey , for example , revealed that barely 30 per cent of internal reports in that organisation came up to the mark . |
| 7 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 8 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 9 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |
| 13 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 14 | No more trucks came up to the gate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As he railed on at us , more and more people came up to the edge of the tarmac , looking across at him , helplessly , in the moonlight . |
| 17 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
| 18 | When the day of the wedding dawned in October , Elizabeth came up to the farm to help Lydia and Martha to prepare for the ceremony . |
| 19 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 20 | She came up to the wind and headed out to sea as I swung round . |
| 21 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 22 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 23 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 24 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 25 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 26 | He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey . |
| 27 | Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house . |
| 28 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 29 | Around three Talbot came up to the library with a telephone-set in his hand . |
| 30 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |