Example sentences of "we [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Though bone dry , they shone in an evening sun that dazzled us , as we linked up the infrequent holds . |
| 4 | We climbed up the easy slope to the top of the island , and found we were overlooking a sort of wooded cliff on the other side . |
| 5 | Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg . |
| 6 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
| 7 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 8 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
| 9 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
| 10 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 14 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
| 15 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 16 | It was a leisurely day and we padded up the rough , warm rock of a plinth of slabs until an awkward overlap sharpened our claws for the crux pitch above . |
| 17 | I wondered what it was as we trailed up the dark nave behind Agrippa , Melford , and others of the Queen 's party . |
| 18 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 19 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 20 | We struggled up the wind-blasted Fiacaill Ridge , staggered over the plateau rim to relative shelter and ploughed through drifted snow across the bowl of Coire Raibeirt until it steepened . |
| 21 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 22 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 23 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 26 | He drove in silence after that , leaving me alone with my chaotic thoughts , and at the end of the long straight slash across the side of the cloud-hidden mountain , we picked up the new road again , swinging right , away from the Jequetepeque . |