Example sentences of "came up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 2 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 3 | Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed . |
| 4 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 5 | And er it was n't until he came up to a , er in the Skegness circuit when I was eighteen that 's when I started nursing . |
| 6 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |
| 7 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 8 | Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused . |
| 9 | Adam came up into a kneeling position and waited for the bus to start moving . |
| 10 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 11 | The endlessly fertile mind of Franco Sbarro came up with a two-seater , V12 mid-engined sports car whose body is mounted on the engine/gearbox unit , central beam chassis and suspension by six hydraulic links . |
| 12 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 13 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 14 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 15 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 16 | Taking his cue from the Egyptians , Mr Ra came up with a third : Mummification ( with a capital ‘ M ’ because Summum , besides patenting the process , has somehow registered the word as a trademark ) . |
| 17 | Supply sergeants scouring Saudi shoe-shops came up with a bewildering variety of non-regulation footwear : zippered beige Saudi military desert boots , Omani army boots , Israeli army desert boots , even imported hiking boots . |
| 18 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 19 | Goldman came up with a ‘ bull oil-linked transaction ’ — a high-yield security with a redemption price linked to the price of oil . |
| 20 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 21 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 22 | After months of experimentation he came up with a vanilla ice cream bar on a stick , bonded with cocoa butter to a coating of chocolate . |
| 23 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 24 | Dispatches ( C4 ) went a lot further and , on the basis of British Rail 's own recent inquiries , came up with a luridly tangled tale of opportunism , misappropriation and downright fraud . |
| 25 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
| 26 | Defendus came up with a projected energy requirement in 2000 of about twice the current consumption , some 40 per cent of the projection made by the LRPPP . |
| 27 | And this particular night she went into the yard , the yard door was shut , she went into the yard and was standing , looking at the moon — when the ticket lad came up with a ticket for me father . |
| 28 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 29 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 30 | They came up with a visionary scheme to raise money for musical equipment . |