Example sentences of "[verb] up as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 2 | Besides , she did n't want to take such a step merely for escape 's sake and perhaps find herself ending up as a prisoner in just another house in just another town . |
| 3 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 4 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |
| 5 | Is there anything that you think needs to be changed , something that you 've picked up as a result of your study you , you feel ought to be changed in the school system ? |
| 6 | It is built up as a result of encountering these words in print as one is learning to read , though of course new word forms will be added throughout adult life as they are encountered . |
| 7 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 8 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 9 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 10 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 11 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 12 | perhaps if integrated schooling were more widespread in the North , more protestant voices would be heard against it , particularly if there was a possibility that a nun or priest might show up as a teacher in such an integrated school . |
| 13 | While we have separate currencies a poor economic performance will show up as a balance of payments deficit — but with a single currency that warning signal would disappear , and a poor performance would show up by whole regions or countries becoming depressed and blighted areas afflicted with mass unemployment . |
| 14 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 15 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 16 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 17 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 18 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 19 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 20 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 21 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
| 22 | Stress is always responsible for neuro eczema , which shows up as a patch of inflammation in the nape of the neck at the top of the spine . |
| 23 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 24 | Now markets have opened up as a result of making desks ; we now design and produce complete study and library schemes , designed to fit . |
| 25 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 26 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 27 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 28 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 29 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers . |
| 30 | But the lies Emerson had told sprang up as a barrier between them , insurmountable because they could not be acknowledged . |