Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 2 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 3 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 4 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |
| 5 | John summed it up as the super sixties , sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties . |