Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] came up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a market contrast to what had gone before in the Singles , it was some of the unsung members of the European side who came up with most of the points to secure the tie . |
| 2 | Despite that success , the playwright had difficulty raising the money to bring the comedy into the West End , although the backer who came up with the all-important £1,000 needed to clinch the deal was able to retire to a South Sea island on his share of the profits . |
| 3 | That , you know , in many of the words you came up with to start with , there 's an element of of fashion , in avoid ageism , avoiding sexism , and things like that . |
| 4 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 5 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 6 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 7 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 8 | And the horse it came up with this long wooden handle , I do n't know whether it was three or four , I ca n't remember , but that was for some couchgrass . |
| 9 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 10 | His wife Jackie , 30 , said : ‘ It was the salesman who came up with the price and they have signed a contract . |
| 11 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 12 | Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper . |
| 13 | It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea . |
| 14 | The costs they came up with included satisfaction ( other than simply getting by without trouble ) ; real communication with colleagues ; idealism ; and self-respect ( can you really like yourself ? ) . |
| 15 | First two days he came up here |
| 16 | Yeah you know that when we were , on Friday when I was in my room he came up |
| 17 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 18 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 19 | By chance I came up . |
| 20 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 21 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 22 | A farm-boy who came up to help was sent back to the farmhouse to cancel the fire-brigade call . |
| 23 | I were thinking , oh it were the day you came up with them and then you went off to , er |
| 24 | Sailing to form , at last , was Gyngell who held onto 3rd place despite a challenge from Fenwick who came up from right behind Goodchild on the first lap . |
| 25 | It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea . |
| 26 | So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there |
| 27 | With that , Dick changed course , and in a short while they came up from behind the Shuttle . |
| 28 | They , on the contrary , the police authority have a working party which had four very long and very detailed meetings and went through their budget line by line by line , and these are the figures they came up with . |
| 29 | In ads they came up , there was the one in the , in the property ads about the sexy detached house with two deception rooms . |
| 30 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |