Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 2 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 3 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 4 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 5 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 6 | One night I remember , she knocked on the door at Denmark Street just as we were packing up . |
| 7 | Or screwed up his kids like we were screwed up . |
| 8 | We were split up which I thought was cruel . |
| 9 | ‘ Is n't it time we were cleared up in here ? ’ |
| 10 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 11 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 12 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 13 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 14 | ‘ We were building up our home , ’ his mother had told him . |
| 15 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 16 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 17 | Roy , 62 , said : ‘ We were fed up sitting down and waiting for people . |
| 18 | When we were fed up , or when the going became rough , which was quite often , a spontaneous sing song would usually start up . |
| 19 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 20 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 21 | Of course my piece will be very different from Valerie 's : I would n't want you to think there was duplication : that we were taking up your time unnecessarily . |
| 22 | Now and again we had association or exercise , but most of the time we were locked up twenty-two and twenty-three hours a day . |
| 23 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 24 | Paul Morris , a Birchfield triple jumper , reckoned that , after he and some others at his Handsworth school dropped some sports in order to devote more time to GCE preparations , the PE teacher reacted angrily : ‘ He thought we were ganging up on him as most of us were black . ’ |
| 25 | We were drawing up plans . |
| 26 | We were dressed up in combat jackets , parkas and webbing , rifles slung over our shoulders , and helmets on . |
| 27 | Once we were there we were geared up with riding hats and given a horse . |
| 28 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 30 | We were rushed up to Scotland . |