Example sentences of "sum [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the most suitable to sum them up provisionally let us pick ‘ Face facts ’ , a roughly formulated injunction which carries with it its own punishments for disobedience , without any need to appeal to God , philosophers or the police . |
| 2 | He had summed up his godfather and he had summed her up too . |
| 3 | Peter Lovesey , whose Victorian police procedural novels featuring Sergeant Cribb are fine examples of this branch of the art , has summed it up neatly in saying that he sees himself writing books that are " a counterpoise of teacups and terror " . |
| 4 | ‘ Sums him up nicely . |
| 5 | She sums it up well . |
| 6 | Mr Norm Ehlers , Ford 's executive director of production purchasing , sums it up simply : ’ If we sell , they sell . |
| 7 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |
| 8 | John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security . |
| 9 | ‘ That sums it up nicely . ’ |
| 10 | This was their task but that sums it up too simply . |
| 11 | George Irwin , former Palace goalkeeper and manager in the immediate post-war season summed him up admirably : ‘ Fred is a good , honest , clean player and a credit to the Palace side ’ . |
| 12 | It was Brian May who summed it up best . |
| 13 | An Atari spokesman summed it up thus : ‘ We did our best to take our lumps as we saw them . ’ |
| 14 | One dealer summed it up adequately . |
| 15 | The Bioscope summed it up nicely : ‘ No travel , no expense , every comfort and a splendid program is the motto of electric theatres . ’ |
| 16 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 17 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 18 | Henry Elstone , finance director , summed it up yesterday when he declared that at £61m it had been a bargain . |
| 19 | She 'd read something in the book of proverbs that summed it up perfectly . |
| 20 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) summed it up brilliantly — it is the state of the depression . |
| 21 | Lee Doherty summed it up afterwards when he said : ‘ We 'll settle for the 3–1 win , but you would n't want to be watching that kind of football every week . |
| 22 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |