Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend Jim 's wife is in America and my other pal 's had his heart broken by a hard-hearted woman with a background like yours , who passed him up in favour of an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 2 | Another who knocked them up before daylight . |
| 3 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 4 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 5 | ‘ Especially , ’ said Mr Pumblechook firmly , ‘ be grateful , boy , to those who brought you up by hand . ’ |
| 6 | Behave well here and remember those who brought you up by hand ! ’ |