Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] she [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home . |
| 2 | After retirement she took up many interests including cookery to a very high standard . |
| 3 | In the middle of eating she got up to telephone . |
| 4 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 5 | With an economy of movement she collected up her things , some of the remaining rations and a flask of water . |
| 6 | With a rush of fury she picked up the J-cloth which was sitting in a pool of greasy water at the bottom of the sink . |
| 7 | ‘ But , as for these … ’ with a gesture of contempt she held up the copies of the agreement ‘ … there 's no way in the world I 'm going to sign these , so you can make a bonfire with them , if you like ! ’ |
| 8 | With difficulty she stared up again at the unreachable sky beyond the bars and wire mesh of her cage and though she tried to say more she was unable to , for her wings sagged ever more weakly and she seemed barely able to hold up her head . |
| 9 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
| 10 | With Rhianon she made up his first fan-club : but even so — as with all the others I talked to who came from Richard 's past — there was no ‘ soft soap ’ : sadness because he was gone — much of that — but no false sentiment . |
| 11 | So I stay there just in case she wakes up . |
| 12 | What she lacks in patience she makes up for in determination which she hopes will soon see her on horseback . |
| 13 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 14 | And when I asked yo and when I said to her , you were in toilet she got up and she ran across there ! |
| 15 | In desperation she picked up the phone and called astrologer Penny Thornton . |
| 16 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |
| 17 | Mrs Zamzam spoke slowly , a village woman speaking to a stranger , and without warning she stood up and went to her other room , returning a minute or so later with a rusting tin . |
| 18 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |