Example sentences of "came up [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 They originally lived in the home counties but came up to this area two years ago .
3 And she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the the new Wandsbergh development .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself .
6 Erm and I came up with this bit , sort of the middle bit , national curriculum levels would be er your own thing right ?
7 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 .
8 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 . )
9 With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 Another correspondent came up with this analogy : ‘ It 's comparable to requiring Detroit to produce automobiles that can be overtaken by faster police cars . ’
12 Instead , George Leather ( with assistance from Thomas Telford ) came up with this design , one of the most interesting aqueducts in Britain .
13 ‘ She was however keen to see her grand-daughters at Christmas and she came up with this solution . ’
14 When asked how he came up with this figure he could n't quite s remember and his department did n't know , so if you put that to one side .
15 Everybody came up with some stuff individually , and some people worked with people on the outside .
16 ‘ Now , Trevor , ’ Derek Carlisle confronted his colleague , ‘ we know that the President of the World faced a demand for higher salaries from our research workers ; that unless he came up with some incentive we would lose the best of those workers ; and that the increased contribution towards marioc manufacture would compete directly for Exchequer funds .
17 Green Bay went into a feeding frenzy in the free-agency market , and came up with some star names .
18 The accountant realising he would not be fobbed off , tried harder and came up with some facts .
19 The American Express survey compared holiday prices in more than a dozen countries and came up with these contrasts :
20 I came up with these answers :
21 The original Ethernet cabling is now known as 10base5 ( a US standards body called IEEE came up with these names ) .
22 Spirits dashed , Fonda and Hopper came up with another idea for a picture called The Queen , starring themselves and Jack Nicholson as Robert McNamara , Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson apparently plotting the assassination of John F. Kennedy .
23 The Bank , as we know , came up with another offer later in the year which must go down as historic as it entailed a zero increase for a nineteen month period .
24 When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him .
25 These came up in some numbers right from the beginning to the end of this strip .
26 During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan .
27 At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path .
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