Example sentences of "we had [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , no , ’ she said , ‘ but there was no need — I mean we had fixed up lunch last week . |
| 3 | At this point Friends of Rough Collie Rescue refused any further involvement , so we had to set up our own organisation called ‘ Rough Collie Rescue ’ ( London and South East ) . |
| 4 | First , we had to set up a structure so we could record all the non-conformances and make sure corrective action was taken . |
| 5 | Two days later , we had packed up our rucksacks , weapons , ammunition , heavy machine guns , camp beds , field stoves and stores and were ready to depart . |
| 6 | It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder . |
| 7 | That we consolidate what we had built up ; but Buckmaster had the bit between his teeth . |
| 8 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , playing against Canadian Province champions and , on one occasion against former world champion Ed Northcott , resulted in severe erosion of the lead we had built up earlier . |
| 10 | town built in our country with two motorways , and the towns have all expanded to great extent and that was why we had to give up , it was nothing to do with our friends the saboteurs . |
| 11 | It was Jo who recognised the value of the ‘ minefield of memories ’ we had stirred up and made visible , and decided to make the work public . |
| 12 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 13 | It had become clear to me that both Leslie and I had changed — not in essentials , but we had grown up . |
| 14 | We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 16 | We had to go up heights then did n't we . |
| 17 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 18 | We had to weigh up the bid which the managers put forward against outside bids and they 're never in exactly the same terms . |
| 19 | Before leaving school we had knelt on the floor in a row to make sure our hem lines touched the ground , just grazed it , and then we had stood up and had our knickers checked . |
| 20 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 21 | Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it . |
| 22 | ‘ Three of us were elected to Exhibitions at the same time , and I recall the maturity of his literary powers as contrasted with the callow essays we had to take up to Owen M. Edwards each week . ’ |
| 23 | Sarella forced herself to ignore it and replied , ‘ The company lost its grant and we had to split up . |
| 24 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 25 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 26 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 27 | We had given up hope , then suddenly there you were , a little stranger … ’ |
| 28 | She said : ‘ We had given up hope and by the time the precinct opened again we had all gone home . ’ |
| 29 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 30 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |