Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 2 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 3 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 4 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 5 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 6 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 7 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 8 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 9 | We headed up the Ring Road towards Old Delhi , and as we drove the avenues began to fill with bicycle rickshaws , all heading in the same direction . |
| 10 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 11 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 12 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 13 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 14 | Through sheer organisational brilliance , Barés and de Rose had , by mid-April , built up the Verdun air strength to 226 machines ; a concentration which Falkenhayn , with his policy of security-on-all-fronts was unable , or unwilling , to emulate . |
| 15 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 16 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 17 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 18 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 19 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 20 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 21 | Mother Bombie asked Evelyn as they trudged up the shingle path towards the girls ' house . |
| 22 | Over at Robinsgrove , finding no water to hose down the ponies , Perdita put them in their boxes and , having given them their hay nets and filled up the water buckets from the water trough , raced off to Dancer 's for a swim . |
| 23 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 24 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 25 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 26 | ‘ Having ignored the demand side and played up the supply side , Niskanen has unbalanced his theory ’ ( Jackson 1982 , p. 132 ) . |
| 27 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 28 | The eels were making such a noise that all the other fishes started making a noise as well , which woke up the Loch Ness Monster ’ . |
| 29 | We burned up the Xerox machine . |
| 30 | The later rotations , if they can be truly so called , burned up the fertility capital at a rate well above true potential . |