Example sentences of "[verb] up in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 2 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 3 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 6 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 7 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 8 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 9 | A GROUP of Belfast residents have moved up in the world — by moving down three or four flights of concrete stairs . |
| 10 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 11 | GOING UP IN THE WORLD |
| 12 | Going up in the world . |
| 13 | Though he wo n't be getting a title Tim is moving up in the world — he 's about to swap his modest semi in Winchester for the grandeur of Anne 's residence , Gatcombe Park , Glos . |
| 14 | It was also a way of moving up in the world . |
| 15 | Moving up in the world |
| 16 | They were identical with their small upper windows , narrow porches and square bays , but it was obvious that the road was coming up in the world . |
| 17 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 18 | Robert Gate has gone up in the world , and no one deserves it more . |
| 19 | So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division . |
| 20 | Starring at the County Ground tomorrow is Kenny Dalglish and his Blackburn team … his very first match as Rovers manager was at Swindon … both clubs have gone up in the world since then but what Town would give to turn the clock back and have the same scoreline again … 2-1 it was to swindon Chalky White and Colin Calderwood got the Town goals … |
| 21 | Sure an' they must be pleased seein' the geddle come up in the world like she has . ’ |
| 22 | " Come up in the world . |
| 23 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 24 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |