Example sentences of "up [conj] we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Silas , darling — I 've come for us to take up where we left off — ’ |
| 2 | But then suddenly we got in contact with each other and picked up where we left off . |
| 3 | ‘ Everything 5 kg and up that we had already measured the energetics of . ’ |
| 4 | I was frightened to pick it up so we ran home to get our dad . |
| 5 | That 's why we push your sleeves up cos we do n't want it on your arms do we ? |
| 6 | sitting in and we 're trying to split them up cos we do n't want too |
| 7 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 8 | I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs . |
| 9 | In the morning the wind was up and we set off immediately . |
| 10 | And we tidied those areas up and we went round and said right , the people with the problem areas , take 'em round and show them . |
| 11 | Me and , did you see me and Sarah we went up and we went back down again . |
| 12 | We wait , he catches up and we go on again . |
| 13 | Next thing they were down with the measuring up and we 'd just got a four thousand pound rate bill ! |
| 14 | But we had a loyal staff who helped clear up and we got back into business in 3 days . |
| 15 | Everything was set up and we moved off in convoy to Barry . |
| 16 | All I did was wash up and we did n't do anything else . |
| 17 | Like , Friday night all the boys came up and then they picked me up and we did n't come back . |
| 18 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 19 | I did n't think anything was up until we went inside . |
| 20 | Yeah , but the thing is i we can get the steel er and make them up but we do n't have to put them on till later . |
| 21 | So we just write it up but we do n't actually |
| 22 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 23 | I say I 'll put me feet up before we wash up |
| 24 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 25 | And we 'll chop your meat up before we go much further . |
| 26 | ‘ Exactly , ’ he retorted , ‘ that 's why you should have filled up before we set off . ’ |
| 27 | He 's to come up after we goes down — so 's there 'll be no bumping into each other on them there stairs . |
| 28 | Even the insects could n't keep up as we shot down Mount Cedric like a beer down the throat of a thirsty All Black rugby player . |
| 29 | Just making it up as we went along . |
| 30 | New pieces continue to arrive , as subject working parties report and orders are made : but there is a strong sense that the master picture is being made up as we go along . |