Example sentences of "we [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea . |
| 2 | Well , on the way back — before we met up with the Space Shuttle — I dozed off . |
| 3 | Here we met up with the East Team . |
| 4 | Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen . |
| 5 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 6 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 7 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 8 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 9 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 10 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 11 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |
| 12 | We got up from the seat and strolled along the terrace . |
| 13 | The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash . |
| 14 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 15 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 16 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 17 | We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard . |
| 18 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 19 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 20 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 21 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 22 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 23 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 24 | Initially probably about er three hundred yards er in a in a side junction erm , but as , once the ins once the operation had commenced erm we moved up onto the car park actually on , below the flats . |
| 25 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 26 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
| 27 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 28 | After a couple of days to sort kit , we headed up onto the hill in two parties of eight . |
| 29 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
| 30 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |