Example sentences of "[vb past] up a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under US pressure , Kaifu announced in September a US$4,000 million contribution to the international effort against Iraq , and drew up a Peace Co-operation Bill to authorize the dispatch of 2,000 non-combatants from Japan 's Self Defence Forces to assist the allied forces being deployed against Iraq . |
| 2 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
| 3 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 4 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
| 5 | In January 1883 Henry Thring , the Attorney-General , drew up a draft bill which incorporated the main recommendations of the Lords ' Committee . |
| 6 | At the end of last year , and with the help of its publishers ' advisory committee , the Council 's Libraries , Books and Information Division drew up a book promotion policy . |
| 7 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 8 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 9 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 10 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 11 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 12 | The Midland built up a cash reserve of £2bn to meet any run on the bank once the loss was revealed , but the reserve was not needed . |
| 13 | They messed up a baton change and failed to finish , creeping from the track with the ribald comments of the crowd in their ears ! |
| 14 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 15 | A silver and tawny tree creeper spiralled up a tree trunk , probing for beetle larvae with its long thin bill ; it dropped down to the roots of the next tree — and edged its way up once more . |
| 16 | On the landing the first door on the left opened up a walk-in cupboard . |
| 17 | I says how come you deputation , you gave us a time of which to be here , now we said , we turned up a quarter hour beforehand and I says we get a phone call er a an intermission from Councillor that you could n't make it because that your car broke down . |
| 18 | And in the end it was he who turned up a bullet case ( 7.62 mm x 51 and therefore probably FAKINTIL ) . |
| 19 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 20 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 21 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 22 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 23 | Leaders representing religious parties , Kurds , communists and pro-Syrian Baathists made up a steering committee which graciously answered reporters ' questions . |
| 24 | A good example is Evala7 ( Patty cut up a potato cake ) in the development set . |
| 25 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 26 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 27 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 28 | On successive days , Tom Rosenthal at Deutsch signed up a father son , commissioning farceur Brian Rix ( Lord Rix ) to write a history of his trade , currently entitled Life in the Farce Lane , and buying Jonathan Rix ‘ s first novel Some Hope , to be published in the autumn . |
| 29 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 30 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |