Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] up as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no , but yeah it was , it was awful paper , but I mean you 'd got it up as long as you do n't look too closely , it 's got it 's own , some of have |
| 2 | He 'd have beat me up as well as Terry if he could . |
| 3 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 4 | Mrs Stevens had given her up as drowned but said little to Mr Johnson . |
| 5 | Would he have given her up as lost ? |
| 6 | ‘ I had given it up as lost , ’ said Mr Tyson , who lives in South Ruislip , Middlesex . |