Example sentences of "we [verb] up at " in BNC.

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1 We met up at Crewe station .
2 I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea .
3 Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
4 What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ?
5 We got up at 5.00am and after a delicious breakfast we got underway to meet our van .
6 We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers .
7 The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties .
8 We got up at 5.30 am and it was grim .
9 We got up at eight and I
10 We were like ringing the bell and both of us were desperate for a crap , absolutely desperate , and desperate for a cup of tea cos we got up at ei er half seven .
11 A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks .
12 We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down .
13 One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south .
14 We woke up at three o'clock in the morning and Ian was the other way round
15 Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock .
16 Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said
17 Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away .
18 ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought .
19 That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four .
20 ‘ As you know , Mr Caretaker , we lock up at seven thirty in summer and , ’ said Williams insultingly , ‘ at five thirty in winter .
21 The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie .
22 And Kev , there 's three of us coming from Oxford — if there 's two or less of you , shall we meet up at Lewknor and share the car ?
23 If you remember at the end of yesterday , Mr Donson will no doubt correct me if I 'm wrong , he fige finished up , we started the day with a total guaranteed minimum of about thirty three and a half thousand , we got that up by arithmetic to thirty four point nine thousand , and I think we finished up at around thirty six thousand at the end of the day .
24 We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices .
25 We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 .
26 We work , we we work shift work so I I mean you know we get up at half past four in the morning and and if you 've got people trundling about above your heads all hours of the night it 's er
27 We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars .
28 As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window .
29 The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be .
30 The lights of Stornoway floated on a soft haze as we passed Arnish Lighthouse and almost regretfully we tied up at Cromwell Quay .
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