Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A sense of responsibility in the children that we help , that they all grow up to be responsible adults . |
| 3 | The only figure that they have been prepared to come up with is bad enough — the initial cost of all the preparatory work involved in making drawings , hiring expensive barristers to put the Bill through the House , and so on . |
| 4 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 5 | I have grown up to be distrustful of men , doubtful of my own goodness , extremely resentful and explosively angry . |
| 6 | He 's Jewish and he 's saving up to be Jewish . |
| 7 | Of course , there was a defence agreement with the French , but what it added up to was mere chat . |
| 8 | When this is good , the child may grow up to be confident and self-assured and this will help him throughout his adult life . |
| 9 | Unless something is done to reverse the effect of such early programming , the former child will grow up to be nervous and unsure while the latter is likely to have no confidence in himself whatsoever . |
| 10 | When parents are faithful to each other , it 's more likely that their children will grow up to be true to each other , too . |
| 11 | WANTED : FEMALES OVER 16 any size , any shape to write to a bored 19-year-old male who 's fed up with being single for most of the year . |
| 12 | I 'm fed up with being different from everyone else . |
| 13 | What put the top hat on it was , when we came back , Debbie sat on the sofa and cried ‘ Mum , I 'm so fed up of being amnesic ’ . |
| 14 | The first idea she came up with was managing workplace nurseries for companies . |
| 15 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 16 | 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 ! ) . |
| 17 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 18 | On occasions it has been necessary for members to ‘ walk the pitch ’ and clear up before being able to play . |
| 19 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 20 | ‘ No , but then how do you ever know that your dear little baby is n't going to grow up to be tall and elegant ? ’ she quipped with huge enjoyment . |
| 21 | The kind of treatment you have to put up with is disgraceful and if you do n't , you simply get fired . |
| 22 | There are some problems which are set up to be impossible to solve . |
| 23 | We are set up to be competitive for the size and shape of projects that we are shooting for and the industries we are targeting . |
| 24 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 25 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 26 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 27 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 28 | Of , we were brought up to be polite . |
| 29 | Others have focused on the socialization process through which girls are brought up to be gentle , passive people who will do as they are told , while boys are brought up to be bolder and more aggressive . |
| 30 | ‘ Were you brought up to be religious ? ’ |