Example sentences of "we [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 2 | We pricked up our ears . |
| 3 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 4 | ‘ It was obviously fate we met up . |
| 5 | The first thing Sandy said when we met up again was , ‘ Come back to the house . ’ |
| 6 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 7 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not a writer but I have done some singing , and so we met up and decided to do some songs , with a conscious effort to keep it basic-sounding , and showcase Lola 's voice . |
| 9 | ‘ When we met up , I did n't have any ideas at all — it just happened . |
| 10 | We met up at Crewe station . |
| 11 | We met up with Sonia and she 's looking great but then is it any wonder ? |
| 12 | Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen . |
| 13 | We met up , and I told him that I intended to collect pictures by the Avant-garde artists . |
| 14 | We met up again when I was working in television . |
| 15 | Well , on the way back — before we met up with the Space Shuttle — I dozed off . |
| 16 | Here we met up with the East Team . |
| 17 | I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea . |
| 18 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 19 | I remember we met up in Grimsby , just after I got there — 'forty-four it must have been . |
| 20 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 21 | Here we met up again with Ned , and stayed with Deryn Williams who is a niece of Anne 's and teaches at the local High School — we camped in her garden . |
| 22 | Daren Fifield is our first new champ … we met up with him in training a few weeks ago … the boy was a knockout … |
| 23 | But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us . |
| 24 | We decided quite soon which charity we were going to go for , and we divided up . |
| 25 | Once we straightened up , he swept the inner cave rocks with the torch . |
| 26 | We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself . |
| 27 | We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so . |
| 28 | Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top . |
| 29 | Babies and boredom , boredom and babies : when the whisky ran out , we made up our faces , exchanged clothes , did our hair , and the afternoon still yawned ahead . |
| 30 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |