Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | They do n't just prove that it 's dangerous to fly , ski , skateboard or dress up as a Mutant Hero Ninja Turtle and try to act tough on the Northern Line late on a Saturday night . |
| 3 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm going to get some beauty sleep , and wake up as a peacock ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Single European Act started as a grandiose design and ended up as a workmanlike blueprint for a free market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 16 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 17 | It starts normally , but ends up as a DYPP ( also known as a sinus(oid) scroller ) . |
| 18 | M56 is not at all prominent , but shows up as a faint patch of light . |