Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back into your document , and we 'll go up a bit . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll put up a statue to you , Mary . ’ |
| 3 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 4 | We might catch up a bit here . |
| 5 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 6 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 7 | We could set up a Follets here . |
| 8 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 9 | With his money and our soul we could think up a scheme to please everybody . |
| 10 | We decided we 'd set up a farm there rearing llama and vicuna and corner the cloth market , assuming there was one . |
| 11 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 12 | We will set up a commission to examine , area by area , the appropriate local government arrangements in England . |
| 13 | We will set up a Commission of Human Rights to assist individuals to take legal action in cases of discrimination or other breaches of the rights guaranteed in the Convention . |
| 14 | Now I 'm not necessarily thinking that that would 've happened if the parish council said , we will set up a group . |
| 15 | We will set up a Task Force — headed by an independent chairman — to help bring empty government residential properties back into use . |
| 16 | More soon of this exciting saga , which is due to be turned into a TV epic or will be if we can fix up a deal with anyone . |
| 17 | As soon as I can I will tell you when this might be so that we can fix up a time . |
| 18 | By patiently watching and recording hits we can build up a probability profile which will indicate how likely it is for a bullet to hit any particular point on the detector . |
| 19 | ‘ If we can map the isotopic composition of lead in the region we are looking at , ie the Mediterranean , ’ said Gail , ‘ then we can build up a database of trade movement ’ . |
| 20 | In this way , we can build up a profile for expected three month interest rates , shown in the right hand column of Table 6.6 . |
| 21 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 22 | when the light nights are here and we can stop up a bit later . |
| 23 | ‘ I think we can scrape up a couple . |
| 24 | We 'll see if we can pick up a pair of them . |
| 25 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |