Example sentences of "we [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We packed up the campsite , paid our bill and left . |
| 32 | ‘ We thought up the collection idea and checked into all the legalities . |
| 33 | As we marched along the docks we gathered up the men until we were some two or three thousand strong . |
| 34 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 35 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 36 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 37 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 38 | We went , we went up the mountains er a fabulous hotel |
| 39 | The further we went up the Nile , the more the river seemed to express some awful ambivalence . |
| 40 | We went up the ladder of powers when we squared the data . |
| 41 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 42 | We wound up the windows as quickly as possible but we were already soaked . |
| 43 | In the logbook at the Climbers ' Club 's May Cottage we wrote up the details and history of all climbing activity in Range West . |
| 44 | We thickened up the insulation in the loft to deaden the midnight sound of her dropping chips of toil on our bedroom ceiling . |
| 45 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 46 | We picked up the Lorrimores ’ car at one point three miles west of Cartier . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | ‘ We picked up the Wheel this afternoon . ’ |
| 49 | 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 . |