Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] up the [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 is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is clear that the architects intend to take their revenge for years of perceived slights by firmly nailing up the poor old builders . |