Example sentences of "up as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 2 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 3 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 4 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 5 | The Tanguts were northern enemies of the Han , and T'sao , the Han Chief of Staff , had pardoned a condemned man on the understanding that he would swallow a ball of wax , dress up as a monk and enter the kingdom of the Tanguts . |
| 6 | But it is not an offence to dress up as a policeman unless the uniform is used for personal gain . |
| 7 | Sort of fix a room up as a theatre and bring the , some nursing staff in . |
| 8 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 11 | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer system and because the memory requirement of LANtastic is low , each computer on the network can be set up as a server and still function as a regular PC . |
| 12 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 13 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 14 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 15 | Never mind what they say , luv , if you want to dress up as a woman that 's your business . |
| 16 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 17 | His uncle John , 72 , who brought him up as a son and taught him to play the guitar , has died of lung cancer . |
| 18 | And it can be a hazardous time for the male — usually much smaller than the female — as he could end up as a meal if he 's not careful . |
| 19 | ‘ And who dressed up as a wino and held up the off-licence ? ’ asked Tim . |
| 20 | he ends up as a tramp and he gets to ah son get in and you know he fucking hanging out the back of the window we had , we had enough money to move to a bigger house right , and they got this little |
| 21 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 22 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 25 | I 'll take over his boat for you , sell it and my own , set up as a privateer and give you a quarter share , so 's you 'll have a bit of income to live on . " |
| 26 | What really sets this up as a fraud and complete load of tripe , is the ridiculous assumption on the part of the forger , that my entire squad of players would happily sign a document whose sole aim is to get me removed from the manager 's seat . |
| 27 | He was afraid of not measuring up as a lover and worried about his performance in bed . |
| 28 | It is possible to play with the distance between the position taken up as a reader and the meaning the text seems to offer . |
| 29 | The couple were married in 1964 and moved to Maghull , before settling in Formby where Mr Ryder set up as a pharmacist and postmaster . |
| 30 | Trent bunched his knees up as a fulcrum and as the man hit them , grasped the big man 's trousers at the waist , heaving for his life . |