Example sentences of "we [vb base] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 4 | Only when we catch up with the Americans in this respect shall I feel comfortable ’ — Vadim Tumanov , displaced Soviet politician , reflecting on his first trip to the US . |
| 5 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 6 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 7 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 8 | We put up with the buckets to catch the drips in the dressing-room at Taunton in order to enjoy the wisteria round the door of the George at Bewley . ’ |
| 9 | With Nathan on board my dogs move more slowly , and we trail off from the others as we climb up above the tree line . |
| 10 | Then when we meet up with the copter he 'll take the mail out . |
| 11 | Well you can see for yourself on Friday , when we meet up with the main man on the golf course ; he 's full of fun and full of hope . |
| 12 | Yeah , ah , we meet up by the golf course , cos time I pick |
| 13 | But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses . |
| 14 | We look up into the sky , we watch the shapes of the clouds changing till we recognize a picture . |
| 15 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 16 | And we finish up with the hardy Scottish and Welsh breeds in September and October . |
| 17 | We wake up during the night with desperate thoughts of what horrible people we are and how if others knew what we were really like they would never want to see us again . |
| 18 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 19 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 20 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 21 | The next day we drive up into the hills two hours from Kingston to see Bob 's tomb in his village birthplace of Nine Miles , St Ann 's parish . |
| 22 | We 've got to make sure we get up into the Premier Division first . ’ |
| 23 | When we get up in the morning , we put on our socks , then our shoes . |
| 24 | The difference in our height changes between the time we get up in the morning and the time we go to bed at night . |
| 25 | When we get up in the morning |
| 26 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 27 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 28 | Whichever we use we end up with the following integration for the potential of an infinite line charge : |
| 29 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 30 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |