Example sentences of "and [verb] up as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 3 | I 'm going to get some beauty sleep , and wake up as a peacock ! ’ |
| 4 | The Clifford family owned the estate for almost 200 years from 1469 , and there is a legend that Henry Clifford was sent into hiding by his mother to Londesborough and brought up as a shepherd . |
| 5 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 6 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 7 | During the Restoration he had regained the lands he had lost when the king was defeated , and ended up as a Vice-Admiral of the Fleet . |
| 8 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 9 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 10 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 11 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |