| If the boss was coming on a store visit, they were busy prettying the place up. |
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| Kingston's town centre rangers were busy prettying the borough last week by planting some 250 mature geraniums. |
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| I had always hated prettying myself up for the public, and then, amongst the upper crust, I found my inner mood sourer than ever. |
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| Were the amateurs doing science, or just prettying up the pictures? |
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| It was becoming the fashion, then, to rewrite fairytales, removing anything too bloodthirsty and prettying up the endings, and my parents were worried that all the skeletons and gouged-out eyes in Grimm's would warp my mind. |
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| But these women are not ornamental, prettying up the scenery. |
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| He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat. |
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