Example sentences of "[vb past] up [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Although the Commission drew up proposals , adopted by the Council in June 1980 , no conferences have been held since .
2 In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this .
3 The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire .
4 From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital .
5 As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London .
6 The GFCCG also drew up plans to raise additional funds , estimated at $4,000 million-$5,000 million , for 1991 .
7 They then drew up rules , based on the data , showing how these acts combine together to form moves and how moves combine to form various kinds of exchange — rather as grammarians formulate rules describing how words combine into phrases , or phrases into clauses .
8 A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones .
9 Their hosts drew up chairs on the other ; the one who was apparently the senior of the two said , ‘ Julia , I think we could manage some more coffee … ’
10 Mr Hunte conferred subsequently with other ICC officials , principally Sir Colin Cowdrey , the chairman , and drew up penalties which were widely considered as being too mild .
11 One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal .
12 NATO ministers promised humanitarian aid , and drew up guidelines for recognising the independence of the former Soviet republics .
13 They heated up pokers until they were red hot , and branded him .
14 In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation .
15 The same people who kill gypsies in Romania , burn Africans in Italy , beat up Turks in Germany , rape Indians in England , knife Algerians and bomb Jews in France ( not to mention the abundant discrimination to which ethnic minorities , women and homosexuals are prey in most countries ) those same people have pointed a virtuous finger at the USA , with marches and demonstrations to salve their consciences of any hint of collusion with those in power .
16 Andy Watt will be stationed at the Mission Hospital , Manali , Kulu , Himachal , Pradesh , for the rest of the year and has two beat up Dancers which paddlers in the area are welcome to borrow .
17 She made herself a cup of tea , cut bread for toast , beat up eggs with grated cheese in a pan .
18 A VICIOUS pimp — exposed by The People — who beat up prostitutes working for his vice ring has been jailed for three-and-half-years .
19 Culturally , the most militant gangs who beat up immigrants in the name of the nation belong to the international youth culture and reflect its modes and fashions , jeans , punk-rock , junk food and all .
20 And while she walked or sat with him , she thought , pondered her life , dredged up scenes , remembered .
21 Outside the lock gates , just as you go into th into near the erm Customs Hut , the Customs place , near the lock gates , all the rock now is what we dredged up years and years ago .
22 With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah .
23 Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail .
24 But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ?
25 ‘ I fixed up months ago to meet my parents in East Berlin today and took some holiday for it , ’ fumed one man .
26 The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked .
27 This can be a serious problem in the urban fringe where farmers also suffer from vandalism and trespass as the result of proximity to built up areas .
28 Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 .
29 They are the Brockman River 1990 Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1991 Chardonnay , products of the Chittering Estate Winemaker Steve Scapera learned his art in California and last year built up exports to the American market to 41 million .
30 As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place .
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