Example sentences of "we [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 2 | We pick up the story with Cain plotting fiendishly against his brother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 5 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 6 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 9 | If we add up the masses of all the stars that we can see in our galaxy and other galaxies , the total is less than one hundredth of the amount required to halt the expansion of the universe , even for the lowest estimate of the rate of expansion . |
| 10 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 11 | The conversation then started to get interesting and we turned up the volume in London . |
| 12 | As we climbed up the crags of Petra , black goats eyed us warily from black holes . |
| 13 | Furthermore , we followed up the course of the accompanying cholecystitis for 12 months and describe its complete cure . |
| 14 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 15 | Anyway , we and of course we gets up the line at the and then I got a touch of some sunstroke . |
| 16 | ‘ We set up the stand outside the Prince of Wales at ten to three on Saturday afternoons when the pub used to chuck them out , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 18 | For a large number of charges we sum up the contribution of each dipole moment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 22 | We went up the ladder of powers when we squared the data . |
| 23 | As we march up the grass towards the motel building I put my arm around Laverne , who knows he 's in for it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How do we add up the value of a school 's work for its pupils , not just academically but in all sorts of other ways ? |
| 26 | However we divide up the work of an organisation , we can not satisfy all of its members for all time to come . |
| 27 | Thus as the need for basic sustenance is met we move up the ladder to the next step , which is the satisfaction of the need for safety . |
| 28 | At this point we take up the experience of those who returned to their former jobs . |
| 29 | Later we take up the case of natural or pure monopoly where huge economies of scale allow only a single producer to survive in an industry . |
| 30 | We thickened up the insulation in the loft to deaden the midnight sound of her dropping chips of toil on our bedroom ceiling . |