Example sentences of "he [vb past] come up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been made to work ridiculously hard , and had suffered a constant stream of abuse when he failed to come up to scratch . |
| 2 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 3 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 4 | If he happened to come up the way . |
| 5 | Maybe that very quickly he started coming up with lyrics and that he and I got on well right from the off , Well , not quite from the off . |
| 6 | I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’ |
| 7 | We could n't get an address out of him , and when he did come up with one it was wrong , a non-existent road . |
| 8 | Yes , no no no no no no , he did come up but he said that he told Ian |
| 9 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 10 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 11 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 12 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 13 | He had come up behind them : thin , tall and tanned . |
| 14 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 15 | He bent to kiss her and before she could recover he had pulled the sheets over her and walked out , closing the door and going down the stairs as softly as he had come up . |
| 16 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 17 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 18 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |