Example sentences of "coming up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember coming up to Middlesbrough for the final game with Oxford , which Boro won 4–0 , ’ he recalled . |
| 3 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 4 | Coming Up to Oxford by Lady Redcliffe-Maud ( Jean Hamilton 1924 ) |
| 5 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 6 | Robyn 's generation , coming up to university in the early 1970s , immediately after the heroic period of student politics , were oppressed by a sense of belatedness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She 's erm she 's a waitress in Chester so it can shows you how much cross section we 've got and erm she said her and her boyfriend was coming up to Blaenau to be on the picket line and so on and we were quite friendly with her . |
| 9 | We 're coming up to Christmas of course and that was touched on yesterday how much people spend at Christmas . |
| 10 | With many electricity supply contracts coming up for renewal at the end of March , the first fruits of the Government 's privatisation policy for the industry are ripening , much like the olives growing in the Department of Energy 's new atrium at the centre of its London offices . |
| 11 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 12 | The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre . |
| 13 | Coming up for sale on Thursday is John Constable 's Harnham Bridge Looking Towards Salisbury Cathedral , with a price tag of £1m plus eight magnificent water colours by Turner which are pitched at about £365,000 . |
| 14 | Of course , it is helpful to fight charges of exhaustion by coming up with ideas for the future . |
| 15 | They were coming up with ideas for advertising on London Transport , in newspapers , contacting people they knew with professional PR experience , people in the media . |
| 16 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 17 | Allen drew on some of his personal exploits when coming up with ideas for the accident-prone hero . |
| 18 | Er yeah just just one other thing , Pete going through the accident book , there 's one or two that are coming up with people on the liquids line getting splashes of liquid in their eyes . |
| 19 | Soon Otis Ferguson was praising the star system for coming up with personalities like W. C. Fields , Jimmy Durante , Mae West , and now Jimmy Cagney , all of whom offered ‘ the sense of real people ’ and who were to his mind ‘ the best and most honest Americans ’ that he knew . |
| 20 | Yeah , keeping myself busy I 've got a lot of surveys coming up in Caernarfon of all places |
| 21 | The focus of the conference appeared to be putting forward some sort of motion to this conference which is coming up in June of this year , balled the Socialist Conference , this Tony Benn thing . |
| 22 | I kicked the rudder and dropped the nose , and we broke out of the fog and saw the water coming up in front of us . |
| 23 | We will be coming up by train on the Friday night , and staying in Constantine Court , the new student and conference accommodation block next to Horlock Court , over the weekend . |
| 24 | I have gipies coming up from Somerset into my county division because they have been moved on because Somerset is designated . |
| 25 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 26 | The reason I 'm asking is that I 'm attempting to get to the games coming up against Norwich at home and Liverpool away . |