Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 2 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 3 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 4 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 5 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 6 | Stan Charlton joined Crystal Palace FC from Exeter City in the summer of 1928 , linking up again with his former manager at St James Park , Fred Maven , who had moved up to London from Devon in November 1927 . |
| 7 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 12 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 13 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 14 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 15 | ‘ Feel this , ’ he said to Merymose , who had come up in turn . |
| 16 | Michael Fletcher , who had signed up in September , had , at last , after much impatient waiting , also been called up . |