Example sentences of "we [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison Vaissiere ( the Fair 's organiser ) : Four years ago we drew up a five-year plan ; the first theme in 1989 coincided with the tercentenary of William and Mary and was titled ‘ A tribute to the age of William and Mary ’ ; the following year was ‘ Italy and the Grand Tour ’ ; last year , ‘ The Art and influence of Japan ’ coincided with the Japan Festival ; and of course this year celebrates American patronage . |
| 2 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 3 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | We drove up a steep gravel path , and soon beheld the well , Tobernalt . |
| 6 | ‘ We soaked up a great deal of pressure , but then hit them on the break , ’ he said . |
| 7 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |
| 8 | We climbed up a twisting staircase past two floors of tables and then took our place in the bay window on the top floor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg . |
| 11 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
| 12 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 13 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
| 14 | And him being a lawyer and all , we cooked up a grand scheme between us so that I could go back to Ireland with my pride intact . ’ |
| 15 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
| 16 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's out of date in certain areas , there are cer We 'd never you see what we did we knocked up a rough copy . |
| 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 | ‘ We grew up a little bit as people , but also as a band . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 25 | We struck up a good relationship almost immediately . |
| 26 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 28 | Black , rather coarse , straight hairs are most plentiful ; then there were finer , dark-brown hairs on the jacket and shirt ; finally , we picked up a few animal hairs almost certainly from a cat . ’ |
| 29 | He drove in silence after that , leaving me alone with my chaotic thoughts , and at the end of the long straight slash across the side of the cloud-hidden mountain , we picked up the new road again , swinging right , away from the Jequetepeque . |
| 30 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |