Example sentences of "we [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 2 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 3 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 4 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 5 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 6 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 7 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 8 | We produced up to 10000 sterile hybrid males per day . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 10 | Hardly when we steamed up like this . |
| 11 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 12 | The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties . |
| 13 | We got up at 5.30 am and it was grim . |
| 14 | We got up at eight and I |
| 15 | We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers . |
| 16 | ‘ We squared up to each other like a scene from high noon ’ |
| 17 | I went after him to ask him what his problem was — and we squared up to each other like something out of High Noon . |
| 18 | We have now changed our statistics to come into line with industrial practice and the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive , by measuring incidents per 1,000,000 hours , [ rather than per 100,000 hours we used up to 1992 ] . |
| 19 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 20 | We lined up behind old ‘ Beachie ’ as he was known and off we went around the City streets . |
| 21 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 22 | That 's the first time and then we and then we were still around the back and we darted up over these banks |
| 23 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 24 | We woke up at three o'clock in the morning and Ian was the other way round |
| 25 | We share a vast depth of vulnerability which we cover up in different ways . |
| 26 | Some people were surprised , and I remember we played up to this a bit . |
| 27 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 28 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 29 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 30 | With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea . |