Example sentences of "come up [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've played it fast and loose before , and on the rare occasions when I 've disobeyed orders ( in the Rhineland during the First Crusade , in a little whorehouse in the backstreets of Byzantium , and on a cargo ship bearing perfumes from Punt ) I have come up smelling of roses . |
| 2 | Aye there some as come up travelling for seeds and for manure . |
| 3 | No matter how much Norse manure you splatter on to them , they 've a habit of coming up smelling of roses . |
| 4 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 5 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 6 | We come up gleaming like otters . |
| 7 | The result will be tremendous for travelling , it comes up smiling after washing and is extremely elegant for any occasion . |