Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We burned up the Xerox machine . |
| 9 | As we drove up the Llanberis Pass he imparted to me , in response to my questions , something of the routine of his life . |
| 10 | So we drove up the Llanberis Pass and on the way conceived the unoriginal compromise idea of a Snowdon Horseshoe circuit . |
| 11 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 12 | Alton 's fourth try came from Taff Evans after a series of swift handling moves completely opened up the RAF defence . |
| 13 | I raced up the Stuart Highway at 180 kph ; there were few travellers and the only signs of wildlife were the customary dead kangaroos . |
| 14 | The aim of the second Columbus video was to address the main issues raised by staff following the video and briefings which made up the March cascade . |
| 15 | The Darent valley , a short distance west of the town , contains several well-known examples such as Darent , Lullingstone and Farningham ; others existed up the Medway valley in the Maidstone area . |
| 16 | Store manager Richard Northover was dumped there by the two masked raiders who 'd kidnapped him as he locked up the Woolworths store . |
| 17 | The Finlay Committee which followed up the Shelmerdine report was charged with looking at ways of bringing about internationalization , and how the issue should be raised with the Dominions , the USA , and the USSR . |
| 18 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 19 | Just rang up the LUFC ticket office ( got through first time , is this a record ? ) and all the tickets for Cov have sold out . |
| 20 | French film makers broke up the Cannes festival in solidarity . |
| 21 | Sure enough he won the lead , drifted up the HVS crux and vouched it a classic . |
| 22 | Sounds man Dave McCullouch took up The Smiths case . |
| 23 | In 1985 French agents killed a photographer when they blew up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour . |
| 24 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 25 | Opening titles , which once featured an animated zoom shot up the Thames ending in a close-up of the clockface on Big Ben , now consist of a camera making a spectacular swoop into the newsroom . |
| 26 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 27 | The technical training department set up the NEBOSH course , which is seen as a logical progression building from the broad base of safety representatives training . |
| 28 | Josephine Butler , together with Stead and Henry Wilson , set up the London Committee for Suppressing the Traffic in British Girls . |
| 29 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 30 | We appointed a superb chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , and set up the Woolf commitee on prison reform , which has produced an excellent report . |