Example sentences of "had [adv] come up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they had all come up with very little . |
| 2 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 3 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 4 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 5 | He had not come up on deck when the P.L.A . |
| 6 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 7 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 8 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 9 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 10 | ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick . |
| 11 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 12 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 13 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 14 | In-cell slot video , that would be a good idea , she did n't know why someone had n't come up with it already . |
| 15 | Of course , he had n't come up with answers , but he had indicated where , in what directions , further work might pay the necessary dividend . |
| 16 | ‘ He had n't come up with any specific reason . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 18 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 19 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 20 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 21 | She had never come up to my room before , in fact I 'd never seen her outside her own . |
| 22 | And I had never come up against this kind of approach before . |
| 23 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |