Example sentences of "we [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A participant commented : ‘ I liked the last day when we teamed up with the professionals . |
| 32 | We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me . |
| 33 | That lunchtime we walked up to the shops . |
| 34 | On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’ |
| 35 | We walked up into the Heath |
| 36 | At mid-day we walked up into the Etançons valley . |
| 37 | But today when we finished up to the middle of th here . |
| 38 | We finished up on the track . |
| 39 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 40 | Chap we stuck up on the chair . |
| 41 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 42 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 43 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 44 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
| 45 | We pulled up outside the church . |
| 46 | The good old Ordnance Survey Landrangers guided our way and after about 2½ hours ' driving we pulled up alongside the river and could n't believe our eyes … |
| 47 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 48 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 49 | ’ When we rolled up at the incident , it was serious . |
| 50 | We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’ |
| 51 | Then we sent up to the Division — ‘ Will you check on this address ? ’ — comes back , ‘ Not known ’ . |
| 52 | We went up onto the station again . |
| 53 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 54 | well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ? |
| 55 | We went up to the safari park , to Evesham for fruit picking , to Redditch for shopping . |
| 56 | We went up to the shop . |
| 57 | We went up to the ward , by which time he was making very odd , rasping sounds as he breathed . |
| 58 | We went up into the Forestry Commission woods the other side of the hills . " |
| 59 | We formed up over the Channel , and it was my job to fire the Very pistol , with pre-arranged colour flares , so all the other Lancs knew which aircraft to form up on . |
| 60 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |