Example sentences of "come up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come up to the vicarage and I 'll make you a cup of … |
| 2 | I have the gratification , if such it be , that people not infrequently come up to me and say , ‘ Mr Powell , I wish all politicians were like you , ’ to which I reply , ‘ God help you , the place would be a madhouse . ’ |
| 3 | When the stumps only come up to your knees you have to be larger than life . |
| 4 | Start counting as the juices come up to the boil . |
| 5 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One of the actors come up to me last week , and he says : ‘ I 'm having real trouble with my April . ’ |
| 7 | Jack said , ‘ Come up to the studio for a moment , I want to show you something . ’ |
| 8 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 9 | ‘ You come up to my place tomorrow night , Nails , ’ Biddy said . |
| 10 | For example , how does the quality of her environment , as she perceives it , now come up to her initial expectations ? |
| 11 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 12 | ‘ Come up to the lake with me . |
| 13 | Only one tenth of British slaughterhouses come up to EEC hygiene standards . |
| 14 | People come up to us and say , ‘ You 're a joke band , ’ and we are to an extent , but ultimately the joke 's on you . |
| 15 | A few people come up to C and congratulate him on the gig , but as he watches the dancefloor ( the three Clockwork Orange clones are getting down ) , he looks vaguely perplexed . |
| 16 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |
| 17 | You can also circle your hips , swooping down to your heels as you go round and come up to the other side ! |
| 18 | ‘ I know I should n't have minded , you 've a right to your own life , it 's just that — well , you never come up to London in the evenings , you 're always too busy . |
| 19 | But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci . |
| 20 | The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip . |
| 21 | This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections . |
| 22 | Sure enough , we soon come up to a party of puffin and a single guillemot . |
| 23 | Only a few consultancies come up to this standard . |
| 24 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 25 | When we come up to date with the recent rise of ‘ law and order ideology ’ encouraged by politicians of the Right , Marxists need have little difficulty perceiving whose interests are being served ( Hall et al. , 1979 ; Hall 1979 , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | She had never come up to my room before , in fact I 'd never seen her outside her own . |
| 27 | So as you come up to a roundabout , you 're thinking of the exit or exits . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 29 | One by one , people come up to him and jump over the stick or crawl under it . |
| 30 | ‘ Come up to my room , both of you , ’ she said . |