Example sentences of "up [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That all he can come up with is a few rotten old … humans ? ’ |
| 2 | I certainly do n't , because erm , according to this policy the first thing the Russian people have got to put up with is a high level of unemployment . |
| 3 | What they 're getting mixed up with is the mortal soul with it , is that when they 're using their imagination |
| 4 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 5 | Fairbrother was another Kumble victim , skying a catch to mid-off to be sixth out and playing the shot of a man fed up with being the last recognised batsman caught in a hopeless position . |
| 6 | The town I grew up in was a typical , ugly small town in the north of England . |
| 7 | Without consultation , Hayling had invited Pilger to move up from being a mere adviser to the new post of editorial director . |
| 8 | Matthew Miles has moved up from being a National Account Executive in the Multiples Sector to become National Account Manager in the sector , reporting to Gary Lunt . |
| 9 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 10 | She was not brought up to be a major figure in political life , let alone a ruler . |
| 11 | Their daughter , Pepita , grew up to be a healthy , happy girl in St Vincent . |
| 12 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 13 | And I think we we have grown up to be a noisy |
| 14 | All the same , he grew up to be a famous philosopher as well as a famous scientist , while I … |
| 15 | I hope he can grow up to be a normal young man in spite of what has happened to me . |
| 16 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 17 | If he does n't reform he will grow up to be a professional criminal . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The York race is boiling up to be a good looking contest which is great , ’ Kauntze said . |
| 19 | as if her thoughts had been transmitted to her sister , Dorothy said , ‘ I know my son would have grown up to be a fine , good-looking man . |
| 20 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 21 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 22 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 23 | Not unnaturally a young man thus taken on might grow up to be a shrewd and skilful miner , and perhaps at some future date form his own gang or pare . |
| 24 | Tabkay says he does n't feel he has given anything up to be a Buddhist monk . |
| 25 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 26 | But Lennie Lawrence is shaping up to be the complete club manager . |
| 27 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 28 | I do n't think we will get anywhere by regarding children 's books as some kind of charitable cause with a long term and uncertain pay-off when the children eventually grows up to be an obedient adult book buyer . |
| 29 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 'll grow up to be an ugly wizened little monster with short arms and a big head . |