Example sentences of "we [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us .
2 in the interview right , we made up a song about it
3 We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself .
4 But we pick up the hotel at
5 We pick up the story with Cain plotting fiendishly against his brother .
6 Though we pick up the corpse
7 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 .
8 Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house .
9 We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions .
10 We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’
11 We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them .
12 We got up every morning and went to our routine , boring and badly-paid jobs , some of us hoping , some of us dreading the advent of Mr Right : he who would relieve us from , God forbid , the tedium of having to rely on each other for company , comfort , support and stimulation .
13 We got up the top there .
14 Can I suggest that we wind up the meeting and er .
15 Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting .
16 For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity .
17 In 1977 , we drew up a petition in the name of AMPES which was distributed to factory owners .
18 We drew up a list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to see , ’ says Bridget .
19 Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’
20 Trout sent ripples over the silver surface ; we cracked up a Steinlager , then joined them .
21 It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway .
22 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 ?
23 The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold .
24 Through this progression , we build up a vista in the round , the lone figure of the narrator at its centre ; then , in ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , the eye focuses on a particular point : the distant river and vanishing tug , whose disappearance from the scene reinforces the narrator 's isolation .
25 We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real .
26 From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions .
27 We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell .
28 Continuing our journey to ever smaller particles , can we break up the pye meson into anything smaller ?
29 If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it
30 We put up a lot with him !
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