Example sentences of "[noun] dress up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 2 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 3 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 4 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 5 | In another experiment , Sissons ( 1970 ) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station , periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 8 | They play the standard all-American folk-rock-country fusion , with the guitars dressed up with a dash of accordion , harmonica and brass , and they write good , solid songs that are tuneful , stirring , but never wildly original . |
| 9 | That was no horseman , but only the farmer 's wife dressed up as a man ! " |
| 10 | But it is not an offence to dress up as a policeman unless the uniform is used for personal gain . |
| 11 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 12 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
| 13 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 14 | BANK Officer Noel Crossley of Chapel-en-le-Frith Branch dressed up as a tomato on Comic Relief Day and went on a tour of the town with a collection bucket . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean , there we are in the middle of some serious investigation into terrorism and some dickhead stumbles into the office dressed up as a pumpkin . ’ |