Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then Molly grew up to be serious and , what was worse , she grew up to be big . |
| 2 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |
| 3 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |
| 4 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 5 | Although his father had acknowledged the son in due time — when the boy grew up to be phenomenally educable — he had never married Miss Chib . |
| 6 | Achieving a maths mark in double figures ( all tests are marked out of 50 ) was about as likely as Iceland winning the Eurovision song contest or Michael Jackson growing up to be normal ( or growing up at all come to that ! ) . |
| 7 | Otherwise children , without those , grow up physically , psychologically damaged and the purpose of Save The Children Fund is to work to give children the chance of a better childhood and the chance to grow up to be adults who wo n't repeat the sins of their forefathers . |
| 8 | The two other sisters , Miranda and Janet , go radically different ways ; Janet becomes a Tory , while Miranda grows up to be a very conscious feminist . |
| 9 | But , like turkeys looking forward to Christmas , industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action . |
| 10 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 11 | In Forth Worth , people line up to be photographed with Van ; they collect first copies of his recordings ; they drive past his house and tell stories about what they suppose may be going on inside . |
| 12 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 13 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 14 | WHY FAMOUS NAMES QUEUE UP TO BE AMBULANCE CASES |
| 15 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 16 | We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known . |
| 17 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 18 | In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest . |