Example sentences of "[vb -s] up in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 2 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 3 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 4 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 5 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 6 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 7 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 8 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 9 | As earth gets up in the frosty dark , at the back of the Pole Star |
| 10 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 11 | Julian Sands plays a dissipated Swiss ; Ian Holm an American writer ; and Judy Davis pops up in the second leg of her dual role as Holm 's wife , with whom Weller has incredibly kinky rubber-monster sex . |
| 12 | The living theatre takes up , it comes up in the living theatre . |