Example sentences of "we [vb base] up the [noun] " 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 | If we pick up the results , other teams wo n't matter , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 8 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 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 | We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell . |
| 13 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 14 | Because we add up the probabilities , to find out the chances of getting that or that . |
| 15 | If we add up the masses of all the stars that we can see in our galaxy and other galaxies , the total is less than one hundredth of the amount required to halt the expansion of the universe , even for the lowest estimate of the rate of expansion . |
| 16 | We tie up the boats and wade up the creek towards it , enveloped in a wind of fine mist . |
| 17 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system . |
| 22 | As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) . |
| 23 | We weigh up the risks and possible repercussions of each and every situation . |
| 24 | Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling . |
| 25 | I think we should make sure we sweep up the Selby drawings because they do include some fairly good stuff . |
| 26 | For a large number of charges we sum up the contribution of each dipole moment . |
| 27 | Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken . |
| 28 | If the demand for energy outstrips the supply , we use up the fat and become slimmer . |
| 29 | Obviously we use up the money more quickly . |
| 30 | 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 . |