Example sentences of "she [verb] it up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So firmly did she make it up that she even waved her stout walking stick in the air , and hallooed at Anna . |
| 2 | She bunched it up and placed it on her thighs . |
| 3 | She snatched it up and thrust it into her bag , her glance flicking up to yet another magnificent view . |
| 4 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 5 | She lifted it up and saw that long ago the batteries had leaked and burnt the wood . |
| 6 | She pulled it up and shook it out . |
| 7 | She jiggled it up and down . |
| 8 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 9 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 10 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 11 | Then she mixed it up and ladled the soil back into the flowerpots , tore open her seed packets and hastily poked the seeds into the soil . |
| 12 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 13 | She picked it up and said ‘ Sorry ’ . |
| 14 | The telephone rang , and as soon as she picked it up and heard the echo on the line from the Prince 's lofty Palace rooms , she knew who was calling . |
| 15 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 16 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 17 | She picked it up and draped it over Miss Liberty 's still-smoking remains . |
| 18 | Then she picked it up and turned , following Ben out . |
| 19 | She picked it up and read it . |
| 20 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 21 | When the telephone rang , she picked it up and heard the Colonel 's voice . |
| 22 | She picked it up and stared blearily at it . |
| 23 | She picked it up and turned casually to the dressing-table . |
| 24 | But , when she picked it up and gasped a breathless ‘ hello ’ , the voice that answered was n't Luke at all . |
| 25 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 26 | A little hesitantly and with an ear cocked for approaching footsteps , she picked it up and tried it in the cupboard lock . |
| 27 | Reluctantly she picked it up and listened for a moment . |