Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born near Scarborough on May 13 , 1951 , Selina was brought up as one of four children in a middle-class family where her mother was a journalist and her father a police officer . |
| 2 | Before her marriage Anna had been taken up as one of the handful of pet Americans and now , although they did not know exactly what had happened , everybody in London sided with her . |
| 3 | She was snapped up as one of the youngest ever Page Three girls but made her last topless appearance on her 21st birthday . |
| 4 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 5 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |