Example sentences of "[vb -s] up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A man wakes up in a beautiful room in a strange house .
2 The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ .
3 " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow .
4 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 .
5 This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill .
6 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques .
7 Now this kind of behaviour often ends up in a fierce debate about guidebook descriptions and grades of the participants ' favourite routes .
8 Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands .
9 In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon .
10 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 !
11 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 .
12 Then , as it grows up in a normal , average temperature , the hotter area of its body — its central trunk region — remains pale in colour , while its cooler extremities become gradually darker .
13 Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position .
14 Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places .
15 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 .
16 From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes .
17 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 .
18 But when he is called to perform later on that night he curls up in a limp ball and refuses to move .
19 As earth gets up in the frosty dark , at the back of the Pole Star
20 We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds .
21 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 ?
22 Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks .
23 Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war .
24 Colin Squire , perhaps best known to the yachting world as crew on many a high class yacht , pops up in a new guise as the representative of marine artist Harry Clow .
25 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 .
26 Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ?
27 This top line here — ’ he pointed with his pen — ‘ comes up in a yellow strip , and this is the best bid , best offer line .
28 The living theatre takes up , it comes up in the living theatre .
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