Example sentences of "[vb past] up as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the pope had the advantage over the emperor for , with the removal of the empire to the West , Roman law ceased to be declared and the Roman law dried up as a living law . |
| 2 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 3 | They often finished up as the main item on the menu at the feast after their visit . |
| 4 | A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thessy , squatting nearby as he waited for his father 's permission to join the conversation , looked up as a twin-engined plane howled low overhead . |
| 7 | The Peugeot 106 XR 1.1 car put up as a special incentive to enter the event was won by Golf Monthly reader , Tom Allwyn Davies from Ipswich . |
| 8 | In the past , there 's always been a little farmer over the hedge who jumps to the rescue — or a Hitler dressed up as a little farmer . |
| 9 | It probably dates back to The Beatles when Richard Starkey became Ringo the millionaire and Pete Best kept his real name and ended up as a civil servant . |
| 10 | The Single European Act started as a grandiose design and ended up as a workmanlike blueprint for a free market . |
| 11 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 12 | He ended up as a departmental head with two other jobs besides . |
| 13 | It usually ended up as a slow jog with a buck thrown in for good measure . |
| 14 | The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on Nov. 23 that Aliyev had accepted election as leader of a newly formed political party , Yeni Azerbaijan ( New Azerbaijan ) , set up as a constructive opposition . |
| 15 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 16 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 17 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |
| 18 | A turnout of 99.5 per cent was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency in elections held from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7 for 50 of the 60 members of the Khalk Maslakhaty ( People 's Council ) , set up as the supreme body of state power under the Turkmen Constitution adopted in May , and comprising one member from each electoral district . |
| 19 | 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 . |