Example sentences of "[vb past] come up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 3 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 4 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 6 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 7 | But they , they did come up with the work on the results , and then they , they did get time to plan it . |
| 8 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 9 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 10 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 11 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 12 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 13 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 14 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 15 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 16 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 17 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 18 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 19 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 20 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 21 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 22 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 23 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 24 | I got there — the message had come up via the landlady . |
| 25 | Hence , by the 1920s and 1930s , only a tiny minority of Burmese politicians had come up via the ladder of education and training in Britain , by which Gandhi , Jinnah and Nehru had risen . |
| 26 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 27 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 28 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 29 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 30 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |