Example sentences of "her up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall Finn and Peter Horbury together raised her up and in a moment or two her eyelids fluttered open . |
| 2 | They should pick her up without any trouble . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She 's knocked out , ’ ‘ Lift her up ’ , ‘ Do n't move her ’ , ‘ What happened ? ’ |
| 4 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
| 5 | Anything to have Lucy scoop her up from her scrubbed doorstep . |
| 6 | Niall sending her up in his lilting Belfast voice for claiming Irish blood . |
| 7 | Harriet stretches out her hand and tops her up . |
| 8 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 9 | ‘ He must have seen her standing or walking , a lone pregnant woman , as he went past and decided to pick her up . ’ |
| 10 | Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened . |
| 11 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 12 | Vivienne — with Bernie backing her up as Malcolm was in the States , having extended his visit after striking up a rapport with The New York Dolls at the time — talked me into doing it . |
| 13 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 14 | In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since . |
| 15 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 16 | Maggie , who had never learned such useful arts from either of the women who had brought her up , had to be shown what was required , but soon the smooth rhythm of one woman winding and the other co-operating by swinging her hands in and out as the thread unwound , pleased and comforted her . |
| 17 | The point is that you muddle her , you muddle her up . |
| 18 | Fenna 's mightier flying , inside which she had her little flight , lifted her up , higher and higher . |
| 19 | ‘ You are such a handsome one now , ’ Rose looked her up and down with pleasure . |
| 20 | The child took no notice and made no sound when her father slapped one arm and yanked her up by the other . |
| 21 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |
| 22 | Marvelling that anyone could say this without a trace of selfconsciousness or humour , Wexford looked her up and down . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , bring her up . ’ |
| 24 | She grumbles a bit about me waking her up , but I do n't think she minds all that much . |
| 25 | She was only little then and I had to hold her up so she could reach . |
| 26 | She 'd always run into my arms when I did that so I could lift her up , but she do n't do it this time . |
| 27 | For a moment he was tempted to wake her up and confess but thought better of it . |
| 28 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 29 | In Japan , the custom of taking their shoes off everywhere , sitting on the floor to eat , and having an elaborate tea ceremony at every port of call , finally cracked her up . |
| 30 | ‘ Where 'd you pick her up ? his father whispered as he stood and raised his hat in a gesture that was too elaborate . |