Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in the world " in BNC.
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1 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
2 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 ( ) . |
8 | A GROUP of Belfast residents have moved up in the world — by moving down three or four flights of concrete stairs . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Robert Gate has gone up in the world , and no one deserves it more . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 … |