Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 2 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 3 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 4 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 5 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 6 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 7 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 8 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 9 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 10 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 11 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |
| 12 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 13 | Facing this triangular space , created for the benefit of traders , the abbot divided up the land on either side into a series of narrow plots on which traders and others were encouraged to settle permanently , building their houses with timber and other materials provided by him . |
| 14 | We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself . |
| 15 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |
| 16 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 17 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 18 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 19 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 20 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 21 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 22 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |
| 23 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 24 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 25 | The pulsating roar of the engines formed a steady background as Delaney kept up a barrage on the door . |
| 26 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , ministers and the NHSME took implementation seriously and kept up the pressure on Health Authorities . |
| 28 | The Nottinghamshire opening partnership of left handers kept up the pressure on a shaky Worcestershire attack . |
| 29 | Waringstown kept up the pressure on leaders Lisburn with a 45-run win over Woodvale at Ballygomartin Road on Saturday . |
| 30 | Robert took up a position on the boundary , fairly near to the maths master . |