Example sentences of "up by her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a civil trial that began in 1987 , Eileen Roddenberry sued Norway , the company set up by her ex-husband , for her share of profits from the original television show , as well as Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , and the Star Trek feature films . |
| 2 | Lennon hauled Ari up by her T-shirt . |
| 3 | The appeal was set up by her friend , Lady Romsey in memory of her daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 4 | One of the wrestlers tipped her up by her ankles , and she too vanished into the hole , high-heeled pumps kicking as she was swallowed by whatever machine or animal lurked below . |
| 5 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 6 | She had n't turned the light out , and now , propped up by her pillows , the bedclothes tucked under her chin , she sat staring straight ahead . |
| 7 | She imagined Nettie , held up by her collar , the water backing up to drown her . |
| 8 | A Potteries child who was brought up by her grandmother and ‘ treated her as me mother ’ remembers how ‘ grandad always used to turn and say , ‘ I 'm not your daddy you know . ’ |
| 9 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 10 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 11 | In the interview she expressed her enormous relief at the return of the collection built up by her husband Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah since 1975 and now totalling around 20,000 items . |
| 12 | I picked her up by her neck and I said you bitch and she goes when you put your face up close to her she goes and puts her ears back and goes like that to your face . |
| 13 | Admittedly the time given to the children will replace time previously taken up by her career , at least in the earlier stages of family life ( later she may resume her occupation with double demands upon her attentions ) . |
| 14 | Ghislaine collects £80,000 a year from a trust fund set up by her father , who died after falling off his yacht named after her last November . |
| 15 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |
| 16 | The sky goddess as a woman arched over her husband , earth , and , held up by her father , air , gave birth to the sun in the morning and swallowed him in the evening . |
| 17 | In Greek mythology , Danae was a young woman locked up by her father to thwart would-be suitors , only to be impregnated by the God Zeus entering her prison in the form of a shower of gold . |
| 18 | Rachel , who was brought up by her grandparents on a Liverpool council estate , commands fees of up to £5,000 a day as one of the world 's most beautiful women . |
| 19 | Yeah and Charlotte 's cheekbones seem to kind of descend from up , up by her temples as opposed |
| 20 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 21 | As well as the nastiness being endlessly stirred up by her mother , who whispered lies about him , saying he only wanted Sien for the posing and would drop her back in the gutter when he was done , there was Sien 's wretched pimp of a brother to contend with . |
| 22 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 23 | It is clear however that , although brought up by her mother in a family subscribing to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses , Miss T. was neither baptised into their faith nor at any time a practising member . |