Example sentences of "[noun pl] come up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partnerships take ages to come up . ’ |
| 2 | Mine , th they 're , they 're taking ages to come up , I mean |
| 3 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 4 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |
| 5 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 6 | It simply set out some crude ideas on how public spending could be reduced and suggested that ministers should have six months to come up with more refined views . |
| 7 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 8 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 9 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 10 | You could usually trust journalists to come up with something . |
| 11 | And they 'll press shops and trolley manufacturers to come up with better designs and clearer instructions . |
| 12 | The start of a new year is a time for pundits to come up with predictions they may well regret |
| 13 | The March issue of Woodworker will also see the introduction of a new regular column inviting readers to come up with ideas for using offcuts . |
| 14 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 15 | The issue of violence in the arts came up . |
| 16 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 17 | I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’ |
| 18 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 19 | Incidentally I was wearing my ‘ holy robes ’ at Alton Towers back in November , & some Blackburn fans came up to me to thank me for Batty ! |
| 20 | Anyone remember ‘ Peak Music Power ’ , ‘ American Watts ’ , ‘ British Watts ’ and all the other flanel that some manufacturers came up with to hide how feeble their amplifiers really were ? |
| 21 | ‘ As the Prussians came up , the coachman unhitched the horses , and made off towards Genappe . |
| 22 | Then all the young gentlemen came up to him and shook both his hands very hard , especially the hand which held his few possessions . |
| 23 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 24 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 25 | His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts . |
| 26 | I got out of the car and a large brooding man with close-set eyes and far-flung shoulders came up to me . |
| 27 | The question of borrowing covered top cars came up again in the autumn of 1931 . |
| 28 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 29 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 30 | Yet though the issue of unemployment exerted considerable impact upon British politics it does not appear that Britain 's political parties came up with much in the way of a meaningful solution to the problem . |