Example sentences of "we could [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the way , I do n't know why we 're sitting crouched down here because we could stand up by the spruce there : its shadow is darker than the sky , and we could be more ready for them . |
| 2 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 3 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a danger , ’ he says , ‘ that with the chairman sitting for only one year , we could end up with short-termism . |
| 5 | But because such funds ca n't be used for staff , education officials fear we could end up with smart new buildings and no teachers to put in them . |
| 6 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 7 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 8 | The gut reaction this morning is we could end up with a bypass scheme at the end of it and no Caernarvon link . |
| 9 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 10 | I still feel it is a dangerous proposition to be in and we could end up in a situation where development comes to a full stop . |
| 11 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we could move up through the shop , better ourselves . |
| 13 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 14 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 15 | Point of call on the way will probably be Leicester Forest East 3.30–4pm where we could meet up with anyone from South-East area . |
| 16 | We could go up on the railway sidings . ’ |
| 17 | We could go up to my especial photograph room . |
| 18 | Oh well we 're fairly heavily committed at the moment but erm well I suppose we could go up to a budget of about forty pounds a month . |
| 19 | But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’ |
| 20 | Given the inherent uncertainty of moral interpretation in social life , it would be foolish to believe that we could come up with a definition of aggression that would allow us to unambiguously classify , much less measure , instances of aggressive conduct in unfamiliar societies . |
| 21 | Of course , like the sentences about the knight , the dragon , and the pineapple , they might form part of a discourse , and if we stretch our imaginations we could come up with a situation in which they do ; but this will not be by virtue of the words so and she , but because of some other information about the context . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |
| 23 | The only way we could get up to the nest was to borrow a ladder from a neighbouring farmer and climb up . |
| 24 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |