Example sentences of "[verb] up as an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 2 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 3 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 4 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 5 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 6 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 7 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 8 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 9 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 10 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 11 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 12 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 13 | By this time , the tigress must have come to know the particular scent , as well as stance , of her hunter and probably recognized him , even when dressed up as an Indian woman . |
| 14 | It seems that the landlord of the Red Lion , called Leslie , and held up as an elegant fellow , instigated enquiries as to how such food came to be served to Johnson , and the following explanation emerged . |