Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] 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 | 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 |
| 4 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 5 | Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 10 | As we went up the almost perpendicular staircase , Wendy pulled the banister away from the wall . |
| 11 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 12 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 13 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 14 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
| 15 | As we drove up the Llanberis Pass he imparted to me , in response to my questions , something of the routine of his life . |
| 16 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 17 | We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't forget we 're going to Appleby tomorrow , ’ Elinor said as we tidied up the kitchen . |
| 19 | As we climbed up the crags of Petra , black goats eyed us warily from black holes . |
| 20 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 21 | Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg . |
| 22 | I wondered what it was as we trailed up the dark nave behind Agrippa , Melford , and others of the Queen 's party . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 24 | As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering . |
| 25 | Though bone dry , they shone in an evening sun that dazzled us , as we linked up the infrequent holds . |