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

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1 I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea .
2 Well , on the way back — before we met up with the Space Shuttle — I dozed off .
3 Here we met up with the East Team .
4 Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen .
5 Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
6 I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road .
7 When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited .
8 After stops for punctures we got up to the snow .
9 but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet .
10 And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there .
11 We got up from the seat and strolled along the terrace .
12 The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash .
13 We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down .
14 Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night .
15 We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office .
16 Initially probably about er three hundred yards er in a in a side junction erm , but as , once the ins once the operation had commenced erm we moved up onto the car park actually on , below the flats .
17 As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished .
18 For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare .
19 By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below .
20 After a couple of days to sort kit , we headed up onto the hill in two parties of eight .
21 Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) .
22 Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’
23 We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment .
24 We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands .
25 We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea .
26 We lined up across the street and he said : ‘ You keep in line and if you knock anyone down , leave him and keep going . ’
27 We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead .
28 To the accompaniment of shouts and screams from the Corporals , we lined up in the corridor and were counted and recounted by them .
29 We woke up in the middle of the night and , for a few minutes , we knew that love is everything .
30 I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’
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