Example sentences of "we up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 'd better take us up to the refrigerator factory , ’ Gary said . |
2 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
3 | The teacher would call us up to the front of the class to recite it , and woe betide anyone who faltered . |
4 | Can you drive us up to the Royal ? ’ |
5 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
6 | Make no mistake about it by all the processes of the government propaganda machine by kite-flying and carefully placed links , the government is trying to soften us up to the idea of increasing the State pension age for women to sixty five . |
7 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
8 | It puts forward a spurious long term disadvantages as reasons why we should ignore the short term benefits offered to us up to the end of this calendar year . |
9 | Then there 's Helen , who knows everybody and is highly respected to say nothing of Betty , who will praise us up to the skies even before we 've spayed one cat . ’ |
10 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |
11 | Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches . |
12 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
13 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
14 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
15 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
16 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
17 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
18 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
19 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
20 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |
21 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
22 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
23 | Sixteen of us flew into Delhi — and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains . |
24 | Erm and er so , I said to him if he runs us up with the car and then he can bring it back . |
25 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
26 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |
27 | My people will pick us up in the night . ’ |
28 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
29 | If they did n't have food for breakfast for us , they would n't wake us up in the morning . |
30 | Alarm clocks waking us up in the middle of the night ; absenteeism at an all-time high during the day games ; the thrill of success and the despair of defeat for the national team — they were new experiences to many . |