Example sentences of "we [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ! ’ |