Example sentences of "we [vb base] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 2 | We pick up the story with Cain plotting fiendishly against his brother . |
| 3 | Though we pick up the corpse |
| 4 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 5 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 6 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 7 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 8 | Can I suggest that we wind up the meeting and er . |
| 9 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 10 | The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold . |
| 11 | We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell . |
| 12 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 13 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 16 | ‘ We set up the stand outside the Prince of Wales at ten to three on Saturday afternoons when the pub used to chuck them out , ’ he said . |
| 17 | In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system . |
| 18 | As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) . |
| 19 | Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling . |
| 20 | For a large number of charges we sum up the contribution of each dipole moment . |
| 21 | If the demand for energy outstrips the supply , we use up the fat and become slimmer . |
| 22 | Obviously we use up the money more quickly . |
| 23 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 24 | Well I think I 'll go round actually cos they 're queuing up , we want to go to the grocers so er if we go up The Avenue we shall just come past the front of it . |
| 25 | Off we go up the step there 's a good girl . |
| 26 | Before we go up the train , can we get to my house first ? |
| 27 | I 'll tell you when to fire up again just before we go up the bank . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ She 's got to look nice for when we go up the hospital to see my little boy . ’ |
| 29 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 30 | As we march up the grass towards the motel building I put my arm around Laverne , who knows he 's in for it . |