Example sentences of "[verb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 3 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 4 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 5 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 6 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 7 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 8 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 9 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 10 | An unpruned bush may suffer from wind rock over winter , opening up a funnel around the base of the stem which could fill with water and freeze . |
| 11 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 12 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 13 | Applix Inc , the office software supplier for Unix systems , is extending its operations to Europe , opening up an office in the UK : based in Berkhamstead , Hertfordshire , it will support and market Aster*x , its office integration software . |
| 14 | She flashed him her most sacharine-sweet and blatantly insincere smile , mentally notching up a point for herself when irritation tightened his lips . |
| 15 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 16 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 17 | The entire ZTT organisation drew up a blueprint for world domination which was a product of the desire to change the pop star syndrome . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |