Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 2 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 3 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 4 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 5 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 6 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 7 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 8 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 9 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 10 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 11 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 12 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 13 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 14 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 15 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 16 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 17 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 18 | She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter . |
| 19 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 20 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 21 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 22 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 23 | The next day she was signed up to the top model agency Storm — and the day after that she started her modelling career . |
| 24 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 25 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 26 | She was trussed up inside the van , rolled under the seat that ran along one side and covered with old newspapers , unconscious but not dead . |
| 27 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 28 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 29 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |