Example sentences of "it up [prep] her " in BNC.

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1 She took the garment , and struggled to pull it up over her hips .
2 But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing .
3 When that happens , she is stimulated to take it up into her own sexual pouch .
4 She plumped it up with her thin hands and held it out invitingly .
5 He had a thermal undershirt on , she got impatient , rucked it up with her hands , bent her head to kiss his broad brown chest .
6 Aggie turned her head slightly away , took up the knife that was lying to the side of her plate , cut a piece of meat in two , then picked it up with her fingers and ate it ; then she turned to the child and said , ‘ What 's your second name ? ’
7 Annie weed down her leg and started to wipe it up with her hands .
8 Meanwhile , Dawn is taking it up with her MP .
9 She could n't catch it up on her bike , that was certain .
10 At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees .
11 She wo n't be able to get it up on her own anyway .
12 She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in .
13 Maybe I have n't kept it up to her standards but I 've done my best . "
14 She had drawn it up to her chin .
15 When Zoser dabbed a little on his wife 's sleeve she took the sleeve and held it up to her nose .
16 Then it was that , with him towering over her , she took a step back and observed that Naylor Massingham must have some highly confidential papers in his briefcase since , evidently not trusting to leave it in his car , he had chosen to bring it up to her flat with him .
17 His free hand wrenched her arm around , cruelly forcing it up against her back .
18 She was wearing a simple shift , and he pulled it up around her waist .
19 She took the frog from Maud and held it up near her face .
20 And when she did , he stopped the stab of her free hand and twisted it up behind her shoulders .
21 And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn .
22 I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) .
23 The art , popular in Regency times , enjoyed a revival at the turn of the century , when Mrs Atkinson took it up in her leisure time .
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