Example sentences of "we [verb] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( TIM ) Hello there … they all get a look in tonight … as we round up the local sport … on the start line ready to go first is the football parade |
2 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
3 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
4 | Though bone dry , they shone in an evening sun that dazzled us , as we linked up the infrequent holds . |
5 | We climbed up the easy slope to the top of the island , and found we were overlooking a sort of wooded cliff on the other side . |
6 | Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg . |
7 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
8 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
9 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
10 | We draw up the perfect guest list , and then go about extending the invitations — we have n't yet resorted to blackmail but it can only be a matter of time . |
11 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
12 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
13 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
14 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
15 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
16 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
17 | We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint . |
18 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
19 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
20 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
21 | I wondered what it was as we trailed up the dark nave behind Agrippa , Melford , and others of the Queen 's party . |
22 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
23 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
24 | When we die the work stops , the temperature differential starts to disappear , and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings . |
25 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
26 | We struggled up the wind-blasted Fiacaill Ridge , staggered over the plateau rim to relative shelter and ploughed through drifted snow across the bowl of Coire Raibeirt until it steepened . |
27 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
28 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
29 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
30 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |