Example sentences of "she was [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 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 eyeing up a potential couple . |
| 6 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was screwing up the courage to suggest she cook him a meal over the weekend when he glanced at his watch . |
| 10 | She was rounding up a party to come and inspect the property . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was holding up the collar of her blouse and gradually twisting it . |
| 14 | She was holding up an oil-lamp and peering out . |
| 15 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 16 | Maybe she was warming up the showers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 19 | She was beating up the |