Example sentences of "us up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rang around four o'clock and woke us up . |
| 2 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 3 | They 'll be with you again in a day or two , if you do n't hold us up . |
| 4 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 5 | The three things which really set us up for John 's arrival . |
| 6 | Our search for something to eat led us up these darkly menacing alleys . |
| 7 | He would pick us up tomorrow early and we could help buy some last bits and pieces . |
| 8 | Odd-Knut picked us up again and we went off to buy him and Tony some beer , available in Norway only at government alcohol shops . |
| 9 | West Indians never went to self-defence classes but they can still beat us up . |
| 10 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 11 | The usefulness of gentle exercise in the morning to help warm us up has just been mentioned . |
| 12 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 13 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 14 | Described by the studio 's publicist-turned-producer Monja Danischewsky as ‘ the Nanny who brought us up , ’ Cavalcanti helped Ealing 's filmmakers to develop the semi-documentary style of films such as San Demetrio London ( 1943 ) , which recounts the true story of a group of sailors bringing a wrecked oil tanker back to port . |
| 15 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 16 | We 'd get our demands because anything was done to shut us up and get us out of their offices . |
| 17 | He 's fixing us up in a flat , with kitchenette , out Godalming way , a live-in maintenance job . ’ |
| 18 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 19 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 20 | ‘ Nobody 'll hear us up there . |
| 21 | But the people take no notice , and instead turn again to accusation : ‘ Why did you bring us up out of Egypt , to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst ? ’ |
| 22 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 23 | The second of them in 21.4–9 recalls in its words of complaint the stories of Exodus 16 and 17 in particular , and also Numbers 11 : ‘ Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? |
| 24 | Just twelve chapters later we hear them saying to Aaron , ‘ Up , make us gods , who shall go before us ; as for this Moses , the man who brought us up out of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him . ’ |
| 25 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'ad us up once for ‘ swimmin' without the benefit of suitable drawers ’ he called it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Used to call us up to his desk . |
| 28 | Neil Warnock , County 's manager , conceded : ‘ The winning goal was the first break we have had since Christmas but it is highly unlikely to keep us up . |
| 29 | They soared above us up towards Tyre and then turned southwards over the Mediterranean , back towards Galilee . |
| 30 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |