Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I suggest that we wind up the meeting and er . |
| 2 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 3 | This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach . |
| 4 | He got back into the front seat and we started up the coast . |
| 5 | The conversation then started to get interesting and we turned up the volume in London . |
| 6 | Well I think I 'll go round actually cos they 're queuing up , we want to go to the grocers so er if we go up The Avenue we shall just come past the front of it . |
| 7 | Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling . |
| 8 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 11 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 12 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 13 | The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold . |
| 14 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Before we go up the train , can we get to my house first ? |
| 17 | I 'll tell you when to fire up again just before we go up the bank . ’ |
| 18 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 19 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's got to look nice for when we go up the hospital to see my little boy . ’ |
| 21 | Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’ |
| 22 | Though we pick up the corpse |
| 23 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 24 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 25 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 26 | It was peaceful enough now but there was menace in the heaving swell and a chill in the evening air as we tan up the east coast of Shetland . |
| 27 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 28 | As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't forget we 're going to Appleby tomorrow , ’ Elinor said as we tidied up the kitchen . |
| 30 | As we march up the grass towards the motel building I put my arm around Laverne , who knows he 's in for it . |