Example sentences of "[vb past] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 2 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 3 | The entire ZTT organisation drew up a blueprint for world domination which was a product of the desire to change the pop star syndrome . |
| 4 | Under US pressure , Kaifu announced in September a US$4,000 million contribution to the international effort against Iraq , and drew up a Peace Co-operation Bill to authorize the dispatch of 2,000 non-combatants from Japan 's Self Defence Forces to assist the allied forces being deployed against Iraq . |
| 5 | The League drew up a scale of reductions whereby players on £5 a week ( the maximum ) took a 15 per cent cut and these on £3–4 a 5 per cent cut , the money saved going into a fund to help clubs in financial straits . |
| 6 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 7 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 8 | In 1956 Britain drew up a scheme for a free trade area of OEEC states , but it was not put forward until November and by then the work of the Six , to British surprise , had progressed well . |
| 9 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 10 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 11 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
| 12 | Thus , their solicitor drew up a document detailing joint responsibility for communal maintenance of roofs , courtyards and external paintwork . |
| 13 | Constanze 's guardian accordingly drew up a document that Mozart was required to sign , promising to marry her within three years , or else pay a large sum as compensation . |
| 14 | Its nature is unknown , for the D text 's statement that they agreed to observe Edgar 's law was probably taken from the Letter of 1019 – 20 , itself influenced by Archbishop Wulfstan of York , who drew up a document after the meeting which stated that the witan had decided to zealously observe Edgar 's law . |
| 15 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 16 | However , Democrats in the House , led by the chairman of the Ways and Means committee , Dan Rostenkowski , drew up a plan to raise from 28 per cent to 33 per cent taxes on the most wealthy and to impose a 10 per cent surtax on incomes of more than $100,000 . |
| 17 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 18 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 19 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 20 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |
| 21 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 22 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 23 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 24 | In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War . |
| 25 | On July 4 the government drew up a budget for 1991 which was described officially as designed to curb inflation , reduce the budget deficit and maintain economic growth . |
| 26 | In August 1853 Britain , France , Austria and Prussia drew up a letter for despatch from the sultan to the tsar which gave Nicholas what he wanted . |
| 27 | With the aid of their literary friends , the painters drew up a pamphlet to distribute to the general assembly , protesting against the chaotic hanging in previous exhibitions , and urging that the hanging committee proposed by the committee of the Salon be overthrown . |
| 28 | Expressing its disappointment with the decisions of the official summit , the Global Forum drew up a set of alternative treaties designed as " working documents for a post-summit era " . |
| 29 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 30 | At the far end of the century , in June 1596 , Lord Burghley drew up a note of matters to be considered by Queen and Council . |