Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 2 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 3 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 4 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 6 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 7 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 8 | Wills , drew up a religious curriculum for Taunton School . |
| 9 | Undeterred , supporters of civil rights legislation drew up a similar bill for consideration in 1991 . |
| 10 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 11 | A joint congressional committee drew up a common version of the two bills which was duly approved by the two chambers , and was signed into law on Sept. 22 by President Fidel Ramos . |
| 12 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 13 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 14 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 15 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 16 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 17 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 18 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 19 | The NCC , the government body dealing with the statutory designation of nature reserves , drew up an initial list of seven sites warranting Marine Nature Reserve status — Lundy Island and the Isles of Scilly in England , St Abbs Head and Loch Sween in Scotland and Skomer , Menai Strait and Bardsey in Wales . |
| 20 | In 1775 the Physiocrat Dupont de Nemours drew up an elaborate scheme for a hierarchy of local and provincial representative assemblies with a national one as its culminating point . |
| 21 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |
| 22 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 23 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 25 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
| 26 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 27 | Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans , mostly to small , independent film studios and heavily secured . |
| 28 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 29 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 30 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |