Example sentences of "[vb past] up as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 4 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the lies Emerson had told sprang up as a barrier between them , insurmountable because they could not be acknowledged . |
| 7 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 8 | I always finished up as a bandit , or a pirate , I do n't know quite why . |
| 9 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 10 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 11 | A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick . |
| 12 | The illustrations from My ABC are also available in 13 separate sheets intended to be coloured in by individuals or groups and then hung up as a mural to decorate the walls of the classroom . |
| 13 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 14 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 15 | For example , J. Goody has argued that West African states grew up as a result of monopoly control , by a small group of people , of military technology , which he terms the ‘ means of destruction ’ . |
| 16 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 17 | Carnforth grew up as a railway town from 1857 . |
| 18 | One recent exresident , Kenny Taylor , who himself grew up as a son of a criminal in the East-End , says , ‘ Since becoming a Christian , I have passed my driving test — I was driving at the age of ten , but now I drive with tax and insurance ! ’ |
| 19 | Balcha recovered , grew up as a page in Menelik 's household and later fought with distinction at Adua , where in 1896 the Abyssinians destroyed an Italian army . |
| 20 | I grew up as a child with a longing to hunt big game , and from 1930 to 1940 I took every opportunity to do so ; for this I have no regrets . |
| 21 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She looked up as a waitress appeared carrying a tray loaded with plates of crusty bread , cheese and pickles . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nina Hamnett dressed up as a Paris Apache , in a pair of French workman 's trousers , a blue jersey , corduroy coat and cap borrowed from Modigliani and a toy butcher 's knife . |
| 26 | Tony Wilkinson dressed up as a down-and-out in London and lived like a tramp for several weeks as part of a television enquiry into London 's dossers , published in book form as Down and Out . |
| 27 | Take the clothes you have on with you , so that if he wants you dressed up as a teenager you have the proper clothes for that , too . ’ |
| 28 | When we dressed up as a bottle |
| 29 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 30 | 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 . |