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

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1 She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days .
2 She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap .
3 She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her .
4 I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself .
5 What , the two er eldest have to wash up and she has to sweep up round the table .
6 A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket .
7 At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives .
8 Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow .
9 Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return .
10 She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him .
11 I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda .
12 She seemed to light up at the idea .
13 Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight .
14 She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime , playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level .
15 But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim .
16 Usually in Maytime she liked to walk up into the high mountain meadows to see the wild flowers , but this year she had no heart .
17 The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education .
18 She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy .
19 His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had .
20 That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’
21 When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept .
22 It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar .
23 She disappeared last weekend , sparking a joke from Australia 's Foreign Minister Gareth Evans that she had ended up on the dinner table of Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping .
24 It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel .
25 You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League .
26 She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves .
27 Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream .
28 She had backed up against the cupboard door and threatened to tell her headmaster .
29 She had to face up to the fact that her father meant business , and that once more Ace was going to be put into an impossible position because of her .
30 And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one .
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