Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] she [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a dark shape swam up at her and blotted the dancers from her view , she smiled , began to say yes of course I 'll dance . |
| 2 | He swam up to her and said , ‘ If you want to surf like a man you 're going to be treated like a man . ’ |
| 3 | She wore a belted Japanese kimono that emphasised her cottage-loaf figure and had a warm , rumpled , half-awake look that made Maxim just want to curl up beside her and sleep for a week . |
| 4 | When she was halfway there , he caught up to her and spun her around to face him . |
| 5 | He tore towards her , menace in every line of him as he caught up with her and grabbed her by the shoulders , his eyes blazing . |
| 6 | Ember caught up with her and matched his pace to hers . |
| 7 | They ran back to the house for breakfast , George excited at their success , Libby content with the same feeling she had had when she first persuaded the old pony to come up to her and accept sugar from her outstretched palm . |
| 8 | When he had caught up with her and gasped , ‘ Constance , I 'm sorry , I really am sorry , ’ she rounded on him . |
| 9 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 10 | He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose . |
| 11 | ‘ Sit still , ’ he commanded , climbing up beside her and taking the reins . |
| 12 | He came up to her and planted a kiss on her cheek , grinning . |
| 13 | I came up to her and started talking to her , yeah , and then Marsha goes to Gemma like that , it 's like |
| 14 | A man in a suit came up beside her and made some remark which caused Jane to throw her head back and cackle . |
| 15 | One day she herself was looking in the mirror , and her sailor came up behind her and put his arms around her waist , and stared hungrily at her joyous face . |
| 16 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 17 | Getting to her feet , angry and hurt all over again , she moved jerkily about the small room and only halted when Leo came up behind her and placed his palms on her shoulders to still her . |
| 18 | Some nights when his mum Beverley gets home from work , he 'll look up at her and say : ‘ Mummy , I 'm such a wobbly boy . ’ |
| 19 | During a jazzy quartet for the women , the company 's shambling clown is dangerously over-excited by one dancer 's leggy prowess , attempting to nuzzle up against her or to initiate a wildly mismatched pas de deux . |
| 20 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 21 | I walked up to her and scratched the root of her tail . |
| 22 | He would just have to walk , openly , away from the main body of the school , get downwind of Maisie , stalk her carefully , and , when they had reached the birch-trees on the other side of Cannizaro Road , creep up on her and leap out at her when she was n't looking . |
| 23 | Edgar rushed up to her and tried to stop her . |
| 24 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 25 | He 's walked up to her and asked her out ! |
| 26 | He could hop up behind her and pop her one with the blackjack , no discussion , no fuss , just an instant human sack that he could throw over his shoulder and rush to the car . |
| 27 | But Claire said they kept coming up to her and saying what are you erm what do you stand as being county for ? |
| 28 | Instead , he took another mouthful of red wine , inspecting the rich ruby liquid through lidded , thoughtful eyes before glancing up at her and inspecting her flushed face with lazy intensity . |
| 29 | He went up to her and touched her shoulder awkwardly . |
| 30 | They went up to her and calmed her and helped her to bed . |