Example sentences of "we be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 2 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think we are wound up more than other teams . |
| 4 | But , even when simply passing the time of day with a child , I would maintain that we are backing up this interaction with the support system outlined . |
| 5 | We 've got to find , we 're taking up all very well , er Jane ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 7 | We 're bringing up new nomes , he thought . |
| 8 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 9 | We 're picking up new habits all the time . |
| 10 | He said , Look up there , and you 'll see a crane , he says , We 're going up that ladder . |
| 11 | Now and again we had association or exercise , but most of the time we were locked up twenty-two and twenty-three hours a day . |
| 12 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 13 | Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras . |
| 14 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 15 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |