Example sentences of "we had [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 2 | We had to weigh up the bid which the managers put forward against outside bids and they 're never in exactly the same terms . |
| 3 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 4 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 5 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 6 | We had to write up the parrot sketch in English and this French translated in French for us . |
| 7 | I mean I could understand when we had to climb up the belt which was damn dangerous , but now we 've altered all that . |
| 8 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 9 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |