Example sentences of "we [vb past] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1	We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard .
2	We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills :
3	we came up with a number of figures .
4	We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion , middle-of-the-road revolution , cover-version original pop music .
5	All three of us if we went up for a weekend .
6	Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’
7	When we dressed up as a bottle
8	We dressed up in a combination of combat and sports kit , wearing gas masks and carrying makeshift torches made of sticks and rags dipped in tar .
9	It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath .
10	But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well .
11	We ended up at a bar near the theatre .
12	We ended up with a rash of headlines , some announcing that we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some that we were against .
13	Someone somewhere , however , changed the order for the Portakabin and we ended up with a 15ft ( 4.5m ) one .
14	We ended up in a basement flat in Earls Court , which sounds grotty but of course at the time that was wonderful — a basement flat in Earl 's Court was the thing ! ’

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