Example sentences of "come [adv prt] in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 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 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sure an' they must be pleased seein' the geddle come up in the world like she has . ’ |
| 8 | " Come up in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |