Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 2 | However , Ridley said that , through ex gratia payments by the government , those who had invested up to £50,000 would be able to recover 90 per cent of their investment ; investors would be able to recover 80 per cent of investments between £50,000 and £100,000 and 60 per cent of investments over £100,000 . |
| 3 | But even after the Equal Opportunities and Sex Discrimination Acts of 1975 , when the legal shackles were cast off , those who had grown up with them continued to tread carefully . |
| 4 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position . |
| 6 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |