Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 2 | He suddenly swung her up into his arms , looking down at her with burning eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 4 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 5 | And then do n't , you no need take her home you see , because it 's only just picking her up on a Tuesday . |
| 6 | He had already summed her up as someone who hated to admit defeat . |
| 7 | We were given a reliable position for this vessel and soon picked her up on our radar when we were able to close and positively identify her . |
| 8 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 9 | And then , as if the slight sound which had broken from her throat was a signal , he quickly scooped her up in his arms , wading swiftly through the shallow water towards the sandy shore . |
| 10 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
| 11 | Some scholars have assumed that the Minoans worshipped a Great Goddess , the Mediterranean ‘ Magna Mater ’ , and that they later divided her up into a series of more specialized divinities . |
| 12 | This was just a routine visit to an elderly patient to check that she was happy , and not in any pain , and also to stock her up on her medicines . |
| 13 | I know what 's really cutting her up about too is very near I did n't know what to what to do . |
| 14 | Ebbo , added Charles , often took her up on this promise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ She says she 'll work , and we 'll jolly well keep her up to it ! |
| 17 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 18 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 19 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 20 | He glared down into her determined face and then swept her up in one smooth movement , carrying her into the darkened barn and grimly mounting the wooden steps . |
| 21 | As though some enormous beast nuzzled her then picked her up in its mouth by the scruff of her neck . |
| 22 | A prude , Chloe , marries a zealot , Enthusiano , who eventually locks her up with directions to say her prayers , as he goes to his mistress . |
| 23 | As far as I know he never took her up on any of these , and that may have been the reason why I was her least favourite Waaf on the station . |
| 24 | Mrs S. complained that her husband never backed her up in her control of the children . |