Example sentences of "we [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 2 | We used up about six towels , and took ages , each of us , to scrub the bath afterwards . |
| 3 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 4 | And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares |
| 5 | There was an old shooting range behind the farmhouse and we went up there one morning to put into practice all that we had learnt about explosives . |
| 6 | Exercise is n't a craze we take up seriously one day and dismiss as ‘ not for me ’ two weeks later because we 've overdone it . |
| 7 | You walk down this sort of , you go through some woods and this is how we ended up where these geese |
| 8 | We ended up almost two hours late . |
| 9 | Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1800 miles . |
| 10 | We sat up late that night and other nights that hot summer in Al Ain , and the strain of Ramadan soon began to show in my young Sheikh 's face . |
| 11 | Uncle Willi wanted us to dress up specially this evening , because of Therese Aschmann coming . ’ |
| 12 | Half a dozen of us went up there one night . ’ |
| 13 | General exploration provides the background that enables us to link up otherwise unrelated items . |