Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I I do n't think myself and I still have an open mind and I do n't think that the Labour case erm adds up to be perfectly honest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 7 | I do n't think we will get anywhere by regarding children 's books as some kind of charitable cause with a long term and uncertain pay-off when the children eventually grows up to be an obedient adult book buyer . |
| 8 | I hope these so-called mothers never wonder why the child they gave birth to , grows up to be a stranger to them . |
| 9 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 10 | She starts life as an adorable little girl and grows up to be an extraordinarily beautiful woman . ’ |