Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If its enemy is still not daunted and picks up the toad in its teeth , the poison acts so swiftly and powerfully on the mucous membranes of the mouth that the attacker drops the toad almost immediately . |
| 4 | Denis Healey , that brutally muscular intellect , sums up the problem in his memoirs , The Time of My Life . |
| 5 | But it h er has certain effects which basically cause muscle relaxation , small amount of muscle relaxation , dries up the saliva in your throat . |