Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 2 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 3 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 4 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 5 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 6 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 7 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 8 | We headed up the Ring Road towards Old Delhi , and as we drove the avenues began to fill with bicycle rickshaws , all heading in the same direction . |
| 9 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 10 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 11 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 12 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 13 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 14 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 15 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 16 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 17 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 18 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 19 | They 're , I tell you where they are it 's that row just as you 're climbing up the Daisy Hill , before you get to the |
| 20 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 21 | Having sewn up the Cobol development business in the IBM mainframe world , Micro Focus Plc is setting out to pull the same trick in the Unix world and is offering what it describes as a complex Unix application development environment optimised for client-server applications . |
| 22 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 23 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 24 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 25 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 26 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
| 27 | The eels were making such a noise that all the other fishes started making a noise as well , which woke up the Loch Ness Monster ’ . |
| 28 | We burned up the Xerox machine . |
| 29 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 30 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |