Example sentences of "up [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 2 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |
| 3 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 4 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 5 | The line was plucking nicely through my fingers and , with my heart in my mouth , I wound the pick up in and struck . |
| 6 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 7 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 8 | Grandmothers were looked up to and respected then . |
| 9 | Well , she 'd faced up to and conquered one major challenge in dealing with Marianne — but that trauma would seem nothing when she was forced to face Dane . |
| 10 | Once she realised what you were up to and told you where to go , you seemed to lose interest in her career . |
| 11 | But she discovered what he was up to and confiscated the church . |