How To Use Come up to In A Sentence
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People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
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For non-working spouses, sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance.
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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If Marge did come up to Rome suddenly, Tom had a lot of his own clothing hanging ready in the closet.
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Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray.
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They come up to gallery requirements by their "pleasantness" or the inoffensiveness of their style.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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Lud-in-the-Mist was one of my very first fantasy books read it years ago when I was but a sprat and nothing has ever quite come up to that standard.
June & July Short Book Reviews
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This doesn't come up to the standard of your usual work.
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HILTON: I had Nicole Richie come up to me in the coffee shop that I work at sometimes and come straight to my face and say, "Hey, call my anorexic to my face.
CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2008
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The plaid skirt seem to come up to her breasts and her shirt buttoned down and was supposed to be tucked into her skirt but she left it out.
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Anyway, just as we were leaving the Moor, their attention was diverted just long enough for a lovely couple to come up to me and say, ‘Here, sonny, would you like this goldfish?’
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The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations .
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For non-working spouses, sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance.
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I really wish my rabbit had just come up to me at some point and said, ‘I say, mumsy, I have a minor flesh wound here, would you care to escort me to the veterinarian in the swiftest manner possible?’
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'And then you'll come up to aunt's room -- I call godmother aunt now -- and take tea with Gorman and us all.'
Lord Kilgobbin
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Who wants to come up to the top of the hill with me?
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I had just come up to the house from Snow Goose, expecting that you had come back with him, when I saw Cartwright's car pull in.
CORMORANT
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And so you may be apprised of everything, there will come for you a black horned beast, not overbig, which will go capering about the piazza before you and making a great whistling and bounding, to terrify you; but, when he seeth that you are not to be daunted, he will come up to you quietly.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Mil. to pass muster: to undergo muster or inspection without censure; (later in extended use) to come up to the required standard, to be beyond reproach or criticism; to be taken or accepted as (occas. for) something.
Battlecat « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I can see my husband riding the margins of the field, talking to his land steward, and I kick Arthur into a rolling canter and come up to him in a rush that makes his own horse sidle and curvet in the mud.
The Red Queen
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He telegraphed to Mummy to come up to London and bring him up his epidiascope and slides, and he rigged it all up in the ship and started giving lectures to the crew.
The Breaking Wave
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Veronica had come up to him with her usual cheery smile.
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Regarding as futile the compromises accepted by other Catholic leaders, he fought alike all philosophical theories and political arrangements that did not come up to the full traditional Christian standard.
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Your last essay wasn't up to scratch/didn't come up to scratch.
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If they don't come up to scratch, we can complain to their professional body and seek redress.
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I called gladly from the stairs, and bade her come up to me.
Friendship Village
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It's a friendly place-people come up to you in the street and start talking.
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Most of the other hotels do not come up to the international standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
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Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said, "Come up to the middle of the 5th floor and ring the doorbell with your elbow.
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Britain prefers absolute standards, which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level.
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Special shops have come up to sell tree lights, decorations and optic wreaths in the city.
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Your last essay wasn't up to scratch/didn't come up to scratch.
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We all expected the oil level to come up to normal when the engine was cranked.
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You know, I've got to tell you, it shocks me and it kind of sickens me too, that if he goes to restaurants, people will come up to him and ask for his autograph, almost gleefully.
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They like the way the furniture is designed for safety, with no sharp edges, and can't wait until the store's two designers, who were also their minders during the weekend, come up to plan their home makeover.
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I have people come up to me all the time, kind of sidle up and nudge me in the ribs and say, hey, I hear you or see you on Imus -- I hear you on Imus, you know?
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Don Imus Discusses Campaign 2000 - August 11, 2000
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The essay didn't come up to his usual standards.
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But suppose we should waive all such considerations, and come up to a full conformity unto all that is, or shall, or may be required of us, will this give us a universally pleadable acquitment from the charges of the guilt of want of love, schism, and divisions?
A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
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Safety measures failed to come up to standard .
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The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations .
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Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor. Drew Barrymore
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But does it come up to scratch for educational value?
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It is the same issue faced by deep-sea divers who come up too quickly - and it can often be fatal.
The Sun
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His performance didn't really come up to his usual high standard.
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The other good thing I discovered was what to say to someone at a party when they discover you are a maths teacher and come up to you and say, "they taught me boring quadratics at school and I am a successful businessman and have never used quadratics ... what a waste of time".
Archive 2008-02-01
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Taking the price off the clothes you're wearing there, now that should come up to about two silvers and five coppers.
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I have Ford fans come up to me all the time and tell me they can't believe I'm out here racing this car.
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I even had someone come up to me in the street and tell me I had let the country down, after TV commentators had a dig at me.
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That means that some of them will come up to bat and strike out.
Times, Sunday Times
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The water was up to/had come up to the level of the windows.
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Do you want to come up to my room and watch TV?
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During the day, viperfish hunt deep down in the ocean, but at night they come up to shallower waters where food is more plentiful.
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He had come up to Grandcourt this term pledged to the hilt to work hard and live virtuously.
The Master of the Shell
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The word coquette does not come up to the mark; that of downright flirt seems to me to answer the purpose pretty well, and I can make use of it to tell you honestly what she is.
Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
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It lieth alonge W.S.W. 90 leagues, till wee come up to a key cal'd St.Francisco. [38] wee turn'd in up within 3 leagues of the shoare, with both shipps. wee Indeavord to stand in with the land in the night, to gaine the land winde. about the fift day att night after wee had been outt of the Gorgony, wee fortun'd to loose company, which brede greate disturbance on borde the Greate
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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Also, which secessionism amazingly didn't come up in the French Canadian debate, (which was shocking as it was THE issue in Canadian domestic politics for ages), it might come up tonight on the American side, Palin?
Eric Lurio: Two Cross Border Debates
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Safety measures failed to come up to standard .
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It required much effort to come up to the nicety considered by Jean indispensable in the churn; and the croucher on the ceiling, when he saw the long nose advance to prosecute inquiry into its condition, mentally trembled lest the next movement should condemn his endeavour as a failure.
Sir Gibbie
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Come up to us and say hello, you will find one of us by the merch stall.
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Couldyou please come up to our county and serve a term er two as our country DA.
Firedoglake » Hey Team Libby…(Part III)
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Britain prefers absolute standards, which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level.
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The hotel manager come up to yell at him, but was just freaked out by this long-haired dirt butting a little 15-year-old's head into the wall.
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He's tiny, he doesn't even come up to my chest!
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So, young Tony, come up to the blackboard and tell the children what you learned from that unholy mess.
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I withdrew, came over her belly, spurting come up to her breasts.
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Why don't you come up to New York for the weekend?
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I think if you win, I'll earmark for you the trout rod, so you can finally come up to the high country and learn how to catch some wild cutties on the fly, and quit sticking us on the bass/salt stuff ... but I know you catch the wildies in Argentina ... wait, those aren't native are they?
Ready to Fish with a Free Rod?
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Here are the ruins of an old mo - naftery/of which the Mono/Ikon gives a particular defcription, and a bridge over the Welland, veiTels of about 50 or 60 tons may come up to the town; and that is fufficient for the trade of Spalding, which is chiefly in corn and coal.
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ...
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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The curlew is the most conspicuous; indeed its loud, incessant clamor, its erect carriage, and the intense curiosity which possesses it, and which makes it come up to circle around any strange object, all combine to make it in springtime one of the most conspicuous features of plains life.
II. Waferfowl
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Miss, I must ask that you please put on your lifebelt and come up to the boat deck immediately.
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I've had a lot of straights come up to me and say, ‘We didn't know this was going on.’
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Your behavior does not come up to the expected standard.
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I understand the argument that you could leave all of this to the governor, then if he or she does not come up to the mark you presumably do not reappoint them.
We need to reform the Bank of England, not break it | Alistair Darling
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Britain prefers absolute standards, which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level.
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We go shopping sometimes and people come up to her asking for autographs and that surprises me.
Times, Sunday Times
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This highlights a matter I have raised before here: it is admirable that we plan to seize back powers from Brussels (which is what the phrase ‘disapply unilaterally’ means) but what is Plan ‘B’ for when Brussels refuses to permit us to engage in ‘unilateral disapplication’ of their diktat, as they will as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow.
Stealth Tax Cuts
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You may lose your job if you don't come up to scratch .
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I went down below, very glad to accept the offer, and as I was regaling myself, who should come up to me but two of the Portuguese who had been wrecked in the xebeque, and put on shore with me in the little boat by the captain of the Transcendant.
The Privateersman
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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Their holiday in France didn't come up to expectations.
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The essay didn't come up to his usual standards.
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Without these tenaces, you would prefer the lead to come up to your partners tenaces.
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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They aestivate during the dry season but come up to the surface to spawn after the first rains.
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I know it seems mean to be disillusioning you like this, but do you really think that he or she will come up to you and tell you how much they care?
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And what I saw a little bit earlier was a tactical team come up to the door and throw in what they call a throw phone.
CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007
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The show will vary night by night, depending on whichever patsies come up to join in.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are to recollect, gentle reader, that as soon as the bailie and those who attended him saw that the smith had come up to the forlorn bonnet maker, and that the stranger had retreated, they gave themselves no trouble about advancing further to his assistance, which they regarded as quite ensured by the presence of the redoubted Henry Gow.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Her pro - longed absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.
Sole Music
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When Gagne has come up to pitch and the mood in Fenway is getting pretty ugly ... and then the guys in the manual scoreboard update the score of the Yankees - Tampa Bay game from 5-1 Yankees to 6-5 Tampa Bay, and suddenly 30,000 people are on their feet, yelling and screaming for a game being played in another city.
September 26th, 2007
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What does he consider a big 'nipper'? ")" come up to Pine Camp.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret
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His new book did not come up to expectation.
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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His wife and daughter-in-law saw him off, and at such times when he had on a good, clean coat, and had in the droshky a huge black horse that had cost three hundred roubles, the old man did not like the peasants to come up to him with their complaints and petitions; he hated the peasants and disdained them, and if he saw some peasants waiting at the gate, he would shout angrily:
The Witch, and other stories
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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
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What is even worse is when people actively beg for money, in that they come up to you in the street and ask you for money.
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Of course what kid doesn't like to look at fountains and water but once the Japanese Koi come up to feed it is has a whole new meaning to the word thrilling.
The Seattle Times
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But it can also be bought as a stand-alone policy to cover monthly income up to 2,500.
Times, Sunday Times
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We go shopping sometimes and people come up to her asking for autographs and that surprises me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over a mile away we saw the bawley come up to the wind shiver in irons for a moment, and lay off on the other tack.
Movie Night
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He's tiny, he doesn't even come up to my chest!
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They may potter round at about ￡70,000 or ￡80,000, then a sudden large donation takes the income up to ￡140,000.
