Example sentences of "[vb past] up a [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When the North Tyneside District Labour Party drew up a programme of objectives for the new authority in 1973 , it placed considerable emphasis on new house building . |
| 11 | Falangist hard-liners made a stockpile of weapons at the headquarters of an extremist group , the Guardia de Franco , and drew up a hit-list of individuals to be attacked should the wounded Falangist die . |
| 12 | ASUTRAMES drew up a series of demands in a 27-point petition addressed to the municipal government , The petition included the following Points : |
| 13 | Representatives of the Education Ministry and the ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) immediately drew up a series of " campus stabilization measures " designed to improve security and restrict student political activity . |
| 14 | The plaintiff or petitioner drew up a series of charges for the defendant to answer and refute , but the burden of proof was on the plaintiff . |
| 15 | At the time of the last election , he and Douglas Hurd , then the Home Secretary , drew up a list of the jobs they would seek not to do after the election . |
| 16 | In an attempt to put the house back in order , Paul drew up a list of jobs to be done and employed a local architect to oversee the work . |
| 17 | In consultation with the New York-based executive headhunter firm , Russel Reynolds & Associates , the search committee drew up a list of candidates , all directors or former directors of American museums . |
| 18 | Schank [ 1972 ] drew up a list of 12-15 primitive actions that he claims underlie the meaning of all active verbs , of which a number are listed below : |
| 19 | Jumbo Van Rennen , who now worked in the A&R department and was the house authority on reggae , drew up a list of all the performers in Jamaica worth auditioning or signing , and in February 1978 a small contingent from Virgin , led by Branson , flew out to Kingston . |
| 20 | Branson and Draper drew up a list of twelve people — almost a fifth of the staff employed in the record company , Branson telling himself , with little conviction , that ‘ people will understand ’ . |
| 21 | A mathematician , he and his care manager drew up a list of 12 unmet needs . |
| 22 | ‘ We drew up a list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to see , ’ says Bridget . |
| 23 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 24 | In a famous book entitled Your God is too Small J.B. Phillips ( 1932 ) drew up a list of twelve inadequate concepts of God which people tend to carry around with them . |
| 25 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 26 | I watched him as he bounded up a flight of narrow concrete steps and banged his fists on a shabby door . |
| 27 | Then , as though it were the most natural thing in the world , she heated up a kettle of pool water to do the washing up . |
| 28 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 29 | Specialized in throwing bricks through Jewish shop-windows , heckling leftist speakers , beat up a couple of Liberal Members of Parliament . |
| 30 | They looked as though they could shoulder their way through solid rock and beat up a regiment of trolls into the bargain . |