come up for something

I didn't think they were ever going to come up for air.

And they did not come up for another half hour.

And a lot more things have come up since then for people to do.

The bill died in committee without coming up for a vote.

These questions come up today, and will for the rest of my life.

She hadn't come up for air in what felt to him like three or four minutes.

The bill did not come up for a vote during the 110th Congress.

And she come up in the car for him once.

A man came up for air and went down again.

Yet he had not come up against them for two years.