Example sentences of "and come [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution . |
| 2 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |
| 3 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 4 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 5 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 6 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 7 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 8 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 9 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
| 10 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 11 | They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer . |
| 12 | I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution . |
| 13 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 14 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 15 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 16 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 17 | McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique , and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker 's . |
| 18 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 19 | Roxburgh , however , decided there was no point playing games , and came up with a predictable yet interesting side . |
| 20 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 21 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 22 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 23 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 24 | of all surgery conducted , and came up with a most impressive figure . |
| 25 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
| 26 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 27 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 28 | Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note . |
| 29 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 30 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |