Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
2 | Even if this were n't so , there would probably be good economic reasons for not keeping up the maximum pulse rate all the time . |
3 | The chief dangers are that some flaw in the title will be overlooked , or that requisitions on title will not be delivered within the stipulated time ( now six working days after delivery of abstract ) , so that a seller 's conveyancer might plead this breach of the conditions of sale as an excuse for not clearing up a genuine difficulty . |
4 | It was nip and tuck up to 7-7 before Best opened up a 12-9 lead . |
5 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
6 | Biological systems tend to normally pick up a particular isomer in most cases , if they pick up the wrong one it will affect , for example the protein chain it will affect , ultimately , its three dimensional structure and therefore , it 's function . |
7 | Once the task manager is visible all you can select Tile or Cascade to instantly tidy up the all of the application windows currently open . |
8 | ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . ) |
9 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
10 | The changes , after four hours of argument among ministers on how to prop up the eight-month-old government , was a rapid response to the turmoil created by the resignation of the finance and health ministers last Friday . |
11 | This at once opens up a huge field of enquiry , but since our concern here is with literary theory , I shall restrict my discussion to structuralism 's contribution to the study of literature and , in doing so , unfortunately run the risk of understating the effects of the new pluridisciplinarity on the approach to literature . |
12 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
13 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
14 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
15 | It is clear that the architects intend to take their revenge for years of perceived slights by firmly nailing up the poor old builders . |