Example sentences of "we [vb base] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 2 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 3 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 4 | With Nathan on board my dogs move more slowly , and we trail off from the others as we climb up above the tree line . |
| 5 | Then when we meet up with the copter he 'll take the mail out . |
| 6 | Yeah , ah , we meet up by the golf course , cos time I pick |
| 7 | But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses . |
| 8 | We look up into the sky , we watch the shapes of the clouds changing till we recognize a picture . |
| 9 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 10 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 11 | We wake up during the night with desperate thoughts of what horrible people we are and how if others knew what we were really like they would never want to see us again . |
| 12 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 13 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 14 | When we get up in the morning , we put on our socks , then our shoes . |
| 15 | The difference in our height changes between the time we get up in the morning and the time we go to bed at night . |
| 16 | When we get up in the morning |
| 17 | and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted . |
| 18 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Keen gardeners and fanatical car washers may have second thoughts about lavish spraying if we end up with a water meter at the bottom of our garden to measure the amount we actually use . |
| 20 | ‘ It would n't suit the song if we end up with a video like Simple Minds or Big Country . |
| 21 | and has it 's so important in the pathogenesis of the capsule that antibodies to it can be used er , ca , er can actually completely prevent the disease and we end up with a capsule vaccine based on the type B pulse . |
| 22 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 23 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 24 | A season is all about consistency , and no matter what the bad start — if we end up with an average of 2 pts per game ( ie 84 points ) , we will right up there — if not champions . |
| 25 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |
| 26 | Yes , we go up on the Ridge most of the time because er we 've all got mountain bikes ; it makes it a bit more fun . |
| 27 | and then on a Thursday night you go up , we go up to a place called Pia |
| 28 | We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised . |
| 29 | We pull up at the door of the drum player 's house in a middle-class suburb of La Paz . |
| 30 | Have we come up with a couple of summer scorchers for you . |