Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] up as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 2 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 3 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 4 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 5 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 6 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 8 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 9 | ‘ To dress it up as a ‘ green ’ tax is humbug and hypocrisy . |
| 10 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 11 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |