Example sentences of "coming up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 2 | A reminder you 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , just coming up to thirteen minutes to six . |
| 3 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 4 | I 'm just coming up to this shop when this girl stops me . |
| 5 | The time is just coming up to twenty-one minutes past seven o'clock . |
| 6 | March eighty nine , well that 's three , coming up to three years then in |
| 7 | Coming up for fifteen years old . |
| 8 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 9 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 10 | Instead of coming up for medical attention he was just sitting there , looking white , and Ruth was sitting next to him . |
| 11 | And erm then a I , Gillian could n't see me on Thursday , and then Friday William is coming up for half term , so er |
| 12 | The company has astounded share-watchers by recording half-time losses due to the seasonal nature of the business and then coming up with continued record earnings at full-time . |
| 13 | He had a gift for coming up with innovative ideas , suggesting links that others would never dream of , and testing them in a rough way to see if they were flawed or might instead lead somewhere . |
| 14 | A cliché in Beowulf 's time , I know , but you ca n't keep coming up with new games . |
| 15 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 16 | Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects |
| 17 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
| 18 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 19 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 20 | ‘ If OPEC is having so much trouble coming up with this agreement , it 's a bad sign for how they will be able to deal with the start-up of Iraq , ’ the analyst added . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're on the verge of losing it anyway unless you start coming up with some answers . ’ |
| 22 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 23 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 24 | For rather than research coming up with unequivocal findings which can then influence and be integrated in a professional and neutral way into policy and practice I will try to demonstrate how political interests and values , in all their guises , influence and pervade the relationship in a variety of ways . |
| 25 | They were schooled in ‘ squaring interests ’ and coming up with acceptable compromises . |
| 26 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 27 | ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’ |
| 28 | No other industry has such a long history of coming up with environment-friendly selling points that are profit-friendly too . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , my psalter ! ’ she exclaimed , coming up on one elbow . |
| 30 | ‘ Coming up on orbital track , Admiral . ’ |