Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] up the " in BNC.

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1 we happened to go up the stair and er , the door was answered
2 The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair .
3 As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success .
4 After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries .
5 On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods .
6 As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further .
7 When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 .
8 It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder .
9 We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian .
10 I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ?
11 We had to weigh up the bid which the managers put forward against outside bids and they 're never in exactly the same terms .
12 We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water .
13 To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed .
14 But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this .
15 That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim .
16 We had to write up the parrot sketch in English and this French translated in French for us .
17 I mean I could understand when we had to climb up the belt which was damn dangerous , but now we 've altered all that .
18 I wish we had set up the amp . ’
19 We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford .
20 He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell .
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