Example sentences of "up [art] picture " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bed creaked , and she lay even stiller , listening intently , conjuring up the pictures the sounds made in her own mind . |
| 2 | Match up the pictures . |
| 3 | You might argue that such an investigation , though time-consuming , would enable you to build up the picture you want . |
| 4 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 5 | Early man observed that things appear to get smaller and to climb up the picture plane . |
| 6 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 7 | How do you build up the picture in a regression session ? |
| 8 | Sinead , 25 , who has donated her £500,000 Hollywood home to charity , said she did not regret tearing up the picture . |
| 9 | 1/I firstly draw up the picture , using a 2B pencil onto stretched paper . |
| 10 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 11 | Step-by-step short-term objectives — building up the picture |
| 12 | ‘ It was childish of her to rip up the picture , ’ says Nuala O'Connor . |
| 13 | The Abbot folded up the picture . |
| 14 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 16 | Setting up the picture |
| 17 | Checklist for setting up the picture |
| 18 | It is by tiny touches such as these — though only a stylometrist would consciously notice them — that Jane Austen builds up the picture of one character 's clubbability , and the other 's insolence of rank . |
| 19 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 20 | 10.30am It 's Alan 's job to set up the picture , arrange various props and decide on the complicated lighting . |
| 21 | The painting is awkwardly and laxly structured but now the contours of many of the compositional elements have been freely and insistently opened up into each other so that the eye is led quickly not only into depth but also steeply up the picture surface , a premonition of things to come . |
| 22 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 23 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 24 | Rincewind picked up the picture box . |
| 25 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 26 | He switched on the light before holding up the picture for Wycliffe 's inspection . |
| 27 | This verve , this ambition and Jay 's laid-back curl of desire threw up a picture of Lucy as a B-movie dominatrix — but very , very civilised . |
| 28 | This meant that what the social scientist was doing in building up a picture of the political society was systematizing people 's conscious perceptions into a system . |
| 29 | Even though you might continue to build up a picture of the whole operation , it must be based upon an increasing number of assumptions — and assumptions might be wrong , with potentially catastrophic effects upon the correctness of your account of the family and its activities . |
| 30 | Detectives were interviewing the mother , who has asked not to be named , to build up a picture of the kidnapper . |