Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 2 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 3 | Crilly fixes us up with a brown powdered lump upon the foil . |
| 4 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 5 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |