Example sentences of "we [vb base] up [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 9 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 10 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | We receive up to a hundred and forty week |
| 13 | With Nathan on board my dogs move more slowly , and we trail off from the others as we climb up above the tree line . |
| 14 | Then when we meet up with the copter he 'll take the mail out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah , ah , we meet up by the golf course , cos time I pick |
| 17 | ‘ We give up to a 70% discount on some related products like paper , ’ Ms Knowles said . |
| 18 | But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses . |
| 19 | We look up into the sky , we watch the shapes of the clouds changing till we recognize a picture . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And we finish up with the hardy Scottish and Welsh breeds in September and October . |
| 22 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 23 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction . |
| 28 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We 've got to make sure we get up into the Premier Division first . ’ |