Example sentences of "she would [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |
| 2 | She would rush up to me with , ‘ Gus is in Syria ! |
| 3 | Yet each development officer thought she would end up with far more paid support workers than was actually the case ; one surmise , for example , was that there might come a time when they had 30 clients on their case load each with two paid carers . |
| 4 | At one stage it was seriously suggested that she would end up as Attorney General . |
| 5 | Headlined ‘ This Sick Idea ’ , the leader recorded the fact that Mr Clay was unaware of what Mrs Thatcher was trying to do and asked whether she had not realised that ‘ by seeking to reward the only general secretary who treated her with kid gloves , she would end up by blackening his name ’ . |
| 6 | Deirdre said something like ‘ Humph ! ’ which made Sam think she would grow up like Miss Bedwelty . |
| 7 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 8 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 9 | When it was wet she would turn up at the cafés with galoshes . |
| 10 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 11 | Norm would sit watching TV , she would glance up at it and back at her book , but he tired early and went to bed . |
| 12 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 13 | Always a resourceful woman , Ada Gaily knew she would come up with the solution . |
| 14 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 15 | Some days were better ; she would curl up on the sofa and talk dreamily about their taking a trip to Norway together . |
| 16 | But she would put up with all that to make Tina happy and give the children a secure childhood . |
| 17 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |