Example sentences of "she was [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 2 | Before she left the Grand Hotel for the opening of the conference , she was chatted up by a ponderous Patrick Cormack , a chastened Colin Moynihan and an eager Charles Harvey . |
| 3 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 4 | And when , within five weeks of returning from that injury , she was beaten up by a yob , she still did n't dream of quitting . |
| 5 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 6 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 7 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 8 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 9 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 10 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 11 | She was brought up as a Nonconformist . |
| 12 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |