Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | This , unfortunately , shows up the flaw in an otherwise excellent gearbox . |
| 3 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 4 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 5 | The user simply lines up the image in the viewfinder of the fixed focus lens and presses the button . |
| 6 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 7 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 14 | And if the generator gives up the ghost in the night you 've got a torch on the table , and a candle . |
| 15 | Parsons gives up the matter in disgust when Tottle fails to win the hand of the eminently eligible Miss Lillerton . |
| 16 | The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated . |
| 17 | Denis Healey , that brutally muscular intellect , sums up the problem in his memoirs , The Time of My Life . |
| 18 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |
| 19 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 20 | He 's not just someone who can communicate a point well ; he sums up the point in himself . |
| 21 | Then he walks up the aisle in the centre of the classroom , shooting at the students lying beneath the desks . |
| 22 | But it h er has certain effects which basically cause muscle relaxation , small amount of muscle relaxation , dries up the saliva in your throat . |