Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 She had therefore grown up subconsciously feeling that nakedness was undesirable , even immoral . ’
2 Now in the past , any child with P K U would of grown up mentally handicapped and would not of reproduced itself , would n't have children .
3 Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill !
4 Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it .
5 In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth .
6 In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property .
7 They are never brought up again to taunt or accuse us .
8 That 's got to be dug up just levelled and crazy paved .
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