Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 2 | Increasing intra-abdominal pressure by asking subjects to blow up a balloon produced an increase in anal pressure in both controls and spinal patients , returning to the baseline after the action ceased . |
| 3 | This is like just allowing children to pick up a bottle of poison , and leaving it in their hands as though it is a matter of no consequence to us whether or not they drink it . |
| 4 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Motown , a leading black record company , is now making moves to set up a Nashville branch . |
| 7 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |