Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 2 | This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach . |
| 3 | Well I think I 'll go round actually cos they 're queuing up , we want to go to the grocers so er if we go up The Avenue we shall just come past the front of it . |
| 4 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 5 | Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling . |
| 6 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 7 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 8 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 9 | If we pick up the results , other teams wo n't matter , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If we add up the masses of all the stars that we can see in our galaxy and other galaxies , the total is less than one hundredth of the amount required to halt the expansion of the universe , even for the lowest estimate of the rate of expansion . |
| 11 | Because we add up the probabilities , to find out the chances of getting that or that . |
| 12 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 13 | The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold . |
| 14 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you when to fire up again just before we go up the bank . ’ |
| 17 | Before we go up the train , can we get to my house first ? |
| 18 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 19 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 20 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's got to look nice for when we go up the hospital to see my little boy . ’ |
| 22 | Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’ |
| 23 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 24 | Though we pick up the corpse |
| 25 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 26 | As we lurched up the soaking , slimy boulders towards it , like a team of wet-look mime artists walking against the wind , one of our party stopped and said , ‘ Let's go back . ’ |
| 27 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 28 | As we went up the almost perpendicular staircase , Wendy pulled the banister away from the wall . |
| 29 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 30 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |