Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 2 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 3 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 4 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 5 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 6 | In the 1770s a wing was added at the back , and once again the house rose up the social scale . |
| 7 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |
| 8 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 9 | In 1949 , with the advent of wages , the ‘ gentlemen ’ of the FA drew up a new competition , the Professional Cup , for competition between the ‘ players ’ of Southend , Leyton Orient , Colchester United , Chelmsford City and occasionally West Ham United , Romford and Clacton Town entered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alison Vaissiere ( the Fair 's organiser ) : Four years ago we drew up a five-year plan ; the first theme in 1989 coincided with the tercentenary of William and Mary and was titled ‘ A tribute to the age of William and Mary ’ ; the following year was ‘ Italy and the Grand Tour ’ ; last year , ‘ The Art and influence of Japan ’ coincided with the Japan Festival ; and of course this year celebrates American patronage . |
| 13 | Wills , drew up a religious curriculum for Taunton School . |
| 14 | Undeterred , supporters of civil rights legislation drew up a similar bill for consideration in 1991 . |
| 15 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A relocation team representing all parts of the business and every production shift drew up a military-style plan to carry out the operation . |
| 20 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 21 | An official of the Association of British Insurers , which drew up the new insurance ratings , conceded that the structure , which is due to be introduced on July 1 , is being revised ‘ almost daily . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |
| 25 | In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government . |
| 26 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Following the report , the National Union of Teachers ' ‘ stress project team ’ then drew up an organisational action plan which , it argued , would , if implemented , reduce the sources of stress . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |