Example sentences of "we [vb base] up [art] [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 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 .
9 Can I suggest that we wind up the meeting and er .
10 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 ?
11 The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold .
12 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 .
13 We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell .
14 If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it
15 We put up a lot with him !
16 As a personal trademark we put up a straw model of a short-eared owl made locally especially for us .
17 We bust up a while back , ’ she says .
18 We wake up every morning thinking about competition , and we adjust what we 're doing based on that . ’
19 We set up a phone hotline for businesses and charities that had unwittingly signed unfair contracts .
20 If we set up a regression formula ( or companion matrix ) for the cubic , we find the next factor to be ( unc + 1 ) , as we have already noted .
21 Yes , we set up a unit affiliated to the University of Salzburg to look into the question of stress in music-making ; and also the influence of music on the mind and the body , of healthy people and sick people .
22 An example of this was when we set up a shot on a Caribbean island with palm tree and sunset and " Pure Gold " .
23 With the patience and advice from my local vet we set up a recovery programme .
24 We set up an apparatus in which pairs of protons , A and B , are produced in a singlet state .
25 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
26 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
27 The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme .
28 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 .
29 In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system .
30 As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) .
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