Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
| 2 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 3 | He tots up the maths in his head — five units for last year 's domestic season and the World Cup , a unit each for 1992 's five domestic tests , two more for the venture to South Africa and four for the major tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 4 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 5 | Then he walks up the aisle in the centre of the classroom , shooting at the students lying beneath the desks . |
| 6 | He 's not just someone who can communicate a point well ; he sums up the point in himself . |
| 7 | well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing |