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Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out .
2	It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking .
3	It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon .
4	There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house .
5	she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this
6	She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance .
7	She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris .
8	Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse .
9	The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest .
10	The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars .
11	The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual .
12	hit the front of the car and she went that way , and she finished up in the hedge
13	And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ?
14	And she gets up in the night and sits by the telephone in the hall in the dark .
15	And she come up in the car for him once .
16	Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty !
17	And she flounced up to the house , her long black hair swinging rebelliously down her back from under her red woollen cap .
18	Also urgent , as he served her tea and she sat up in the bed , exposing her small breasts without a thought .
19	But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top .
20	The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life .
21	Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open .
22	And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head .
23	Miguel waited while she climbed up into the driver 's seat and wrapped on the seat belt .
24	When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate .
25	But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone .
26	She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house .
27	I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore .
28	But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog .
29	The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings .
30	She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard .