Example sentences of "[noun sg] dressed [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THIS is regurgitated garbage dressed up as something new , ’ said Frank Bough when confronted with the error of his ways . |
| 2 | This is just regurgitated garbage dressed up as something new . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 5 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 6 | The Marie Lloyd costume she was wearing : buttoned boots , feather boa , black-straw , flower-trimmed hat , gave her the appearance of a child dressed up as an adult . |
| 7 | Candidate Florio and his blonde wife , Lucinda , had no choice but to pose with the property developer from the Jersey waterfront before moving on past three mediocre belly-dancers , a man ( on stilts ) dressed up as Abraham Lincoln and an actor dressed up as Rip Van Winkle . |
| 8 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 9 | That was no horseman , but only the farmer 's wife dressed up as a man ! " |
| 10 | Yeah and they used to have a man dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and he used to do his antics on the pitch before the players came out yeah . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He is somewhat surprised to see Dave and Stone from Pearl Jam and Bill from Ministry dressed up as men 's ladies ; female attire and make-up obligatory if you want to play with Lush . |
| 13 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |