Example sentences of "come up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er er whether or not it 'll be the same faces c l as come up and do it er But it it should n't make that much difference . |
| 2 | The moon had come up and laid a greenish iridescence on the surface of the lake . |
| 3 | I could not have been more bemused if characters from books had come up and started talking to me . |
| 4 | Cos they could have come up and looked at that . |
| 5 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 6 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , we had a erm , I had an aunt and uncle , they lived in Southend , and they used to like to come up and perform em , he had a violin and she used to play the piano , and my erm , father did n't really care for the music , but they liked sort of opera and stuff like that |
| 8 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 9 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 10 | interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us . |
| 11 | Pitt remembers that as a little boy attending church he 'd sit cowering in the pew , afraid the preacher would ask him to come up and give the benediction . |
| 12 | He supposed the Parents ' Association would make a rota of some sort , to come up and do it . |
| 13 | You did it on me , gettin' her to come up and talk to me , and do n't think I do n't know you 're laughin' about it . |
| 14 | ‘ Us is in 'ere , Sergeant Joe , ’ called Ella , ‘ Mum told us to come up and talk to yer lady friend . ’ |
| 15 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
| 16 | It ai n't funny , y'know , gettin' a steamroller to come up and suffocate me , and me in an unwell condition . |
| 17 | ‘ This now brings me to the moment when I have immense pleasure in asking Douglas Irwin to come up and receive the watch worn by his father on that fateful night nearly fifty years ago . |
| 18 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 19 | See about getting some people to come up and help with the harvest next week . |
| 20 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
| 21 | And you aiming to come up and read English Lit . ’ |
| 22 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 23 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 24 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |
| 25 | Miranda began , again , addressing herself to the young girl , ‘ While I 'm getting ready , would you like to come up and see my room ? ’ |
| 26 | As I same I 'm I 'm You know , to be a bother like , but I thought well I 'd be best to come up and see you I could have just have asked for an another prescription . |
| 27 | I 'll have to come up I 'll have to come up and see your |
| 28 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 29 | Or what about your mum , Ella , think she might like to come up and join the hen party ? ’ |
| 30 | Are you going to come up and join us ? |