Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 13 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mother Bombie asked Evelyn as they trudged up the shingle path towards the girls ' house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Having ignored the demand side and played up the supply side , Niskanen has unbalanced his theory ’ ( Jackson 1982 , p. 132 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We burned up the Xerox machine . |
| 22 | The later rotations , if they can be truly so called , burned up the fertility capital at a rate well above true potential . |
| 23 | As we drove up the Llanberis Pass he imparted to me , in response to my questions , something of the routine of his life . |
| 24 | So we drove up the Llanberis Pass and on the way conceived the unoriginal compromise idea of a Snowdon Horseshoe circuit . |
| 25 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 26 | Patrick drove up the east bank of the Danube through the low-lying city of Pest , then crossed the Elizabethan bridge into Buda . |
| 27 | I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye . |
| 28 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 29 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 30 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |