Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
2 W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War .
3 well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ?
4 The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash .
5 At mid-day we walked up into the Etançons valley .
6 That lunchtime we walked up to the shops .
7 ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more .
8 One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) .
9 For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare .
10 By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below .
11 Chap we stuck up on the chair .
12 Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night .
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