Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were to climb up the hillock and semaphore with her flags the signals would be clearly outlined against the sky . |
| 2 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 3 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 4 | She was picking up the knack . |
| 5 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 6 | I wondered if she was hunting up an appetite but I did n't ask , just like I did n't ask about Werewolf 's trip to Dublin . |
| 7 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 8 | She was screwing up the courage to suggest she cook him a meal over the weekend when he glanced at his watch . |
| 9 | She was rounding up a party to come and inspect the property . |
| 10 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 11 | This was a special event in her life , a rare and wonderful thing , she was lapping up a comfort undreamed of in her daily existence . |
| 12 | She was holding up the collar of her blouse and gradually twisting it . |
| 13 | She was holding up an oil-lamp and peering out . |
| 14 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 15 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |