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 | It was nip and tuck up to 7-7 before Best opened up a 12-9 lead . |
| 3 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is clear that the architects intend to take their revenge for years of perceived slights by firmly nailing up the poor old builders . |