Example sentences of "she [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 2 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 3 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 4 | That 's all she joined up for . |
| 5 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 6 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 7 | She reached up for him , clawing at his shoulders , her fingers slipping on his wet skin as her body strained upwards towards his , arching rigidly , jerking and quivering convulsively . |
| 8 | She spoke up for you ! |
| 9 | And the picnic she put up for us was first-rate . |
| 10 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 11 | What she lacks in patience she makes up for in determination which she hopes will soon see her on horseback . |
| 12 | There was a knock on the door , and Miranda jumped to let in Xanthe , carrying a crinkly air-mail-paper version of The Times , and a copy of Paris-Match with a photograph of Bardot , which she held up for Miranda to see . |
| 13 | Somewhat forbidding socially because of shyness , Dorothea had an absolute integrity which made her stand up for what she believed should be done . |
| 14 | She turned her face up for his kiss , her heart singing within her as their lips met in a caress that was both healing and passionate . |
| 15 | Oxford 's Yinka Idowa continues her run up for the forthcoming outdoor season , this time indoors , jumping for Great Britain in the Pearl Assurance games in Glasgow . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think anyone 's told her to shut up for years . |
| 17 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 18 | He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 19 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |