Example sentences of "she [verb] up the " in BNC.
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1 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
2 | She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms . |
3 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
4 | And erm did your mother work or was she bringing up the family ? |
5 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
6 | With the speed and precision of an avenging angel , she swooped up the net and tipped out the three squirming occupants , watching with grim satisfaction as they darted away . |
7 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
8 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
9 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
10 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
11 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
12 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
13 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
14 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
15 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
16 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
17 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
18 | She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger . |
19 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
20 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
21 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
22 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
23 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
24 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
25 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
26 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
27 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
28 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
29 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
30 | She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes . |