Example sentences of "came up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 2 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 3 | They originally lived in the home counties but came up to this area two years ago . |
| 4 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 5 | For example , when different colleges came up with similar proposals , it was suggested that they might co-operate in the development work . |
| 6 | BTR cuts : BTR , the industrial conglomerate that won a fierce takeover battle for the Hawker Siddeley engineering group , came up with pre-tax profits at the top end of City expectations yesterday . |
| 7 | in 1937 , with threat of war with Germany moving ever closer , Stalin came up with inspired notion of purging the armed forces . |
| 8 | In one year , 30 per cent of the workforce at the up-scale Marriott Marquis in Atlanta came up with 2800 suggestions to improve service . |
| 9 | And she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the the new Wandsbergh development . |
| 10 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 12 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 13 | The the careers service came up with two tapes which was nice . |
| 14 | She did n't like the answer she came up with one bit , but she put it nevertheless to Charity , very quietly . |
| 15 | THE DESIGN STUDIOS came up with fantastic concept cars : Audi Avus , Daihatsu XO21 , IAD Magia and a car with nostrils called the Focus . |
| 16 | Various individuals came up with useful sums . |
| 17 | The Kalkadoon did not have words for European artifacts and ideas but they soon came up with new words as the need arose . |
| 18 | THE HOPEFULS came up with new supercars : famous names from the past — BRM , Iso Allard , Monteverdi — and new names for the future : Yamaha and , ; most of all , McLaren , eligible for awards next year when production of the F1 starts . |
| 19 | If some interviewees left everything to you and just came up with standard answers and showbiz cliches , Bob Monkhouse was not remotely in that category . |
| 20 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 21 | The costs they came up with included satisfaction ( other than simply getting by without trouble ) ; real communication with colleagues ; idealism ; and self-respect ( can you really like yourself ? ) . |
| 22 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
| 23 | Erm and I came up with this bit , sort of the middle bit , national curriculum levels would be er your own thing right ? |
| 24 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 25 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 26 | With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , they came up with this slogan , which originally was ‘ Everything We Do , We Do For You ’ which was uncannily similar to the Bryan Adams song , which came out a little while afterwards . |
| 28 | Another correspondent came up with this analogy : ‘ It 's comparable to requiring Detroit to produce automobiles that can be overtaken by faster police cars . ’ |
| 29 | Instead , George Leather ( with assistance from Thomas Telford ) came up with this design , one of the most interesting aqueducts in Britain . |
| 30 | ‘ She was however keen to see her grand-daughters at Christmas and she came up with this solution . ’ |