Example sentences of "[verb] she up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 2 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 3 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 4 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 5 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 6 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 7 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 8 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 9 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 10 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 11 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 12 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 13 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 14 | By the way , when she reappears , would you mind telling her I 'll be back to pick her up at the end of this afternoon ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 16 | He reached for her , pulling her up onto the sofa beside him and putting his arm around her . |
| 17 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 18 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 19 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 20 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 21 | ‘ And now you ring her up on the day we get back from our honeymoon and get her to come down and tell you all about it ! |
| 22 | ‘ Could you not take her up to the castle , sir ? ’ |
| 23 | She was glad to see Alice , began talking in a heavy tired voice about how the old woman had her running up and down the stairs , even got her up in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 25 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 26 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 27 | Pick her up from the hotel at nine tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 29 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 30 | Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing . |