Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 2 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 3 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 4 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 5 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 6 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 7 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
| 8 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 9 | the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another . |