Example sentences of "her up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
2 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
3 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
4 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
5 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
6 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
7 | He had said he would pick her up at the office , so that 's where she was . |
8 | By the way , when she reappears , would you mind telling her I 'll be back to pick her up at the end of this afternoon ? ’ |
9 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Garvey stood her up on the beer-stained trestle where she stamped out the rhythm with one foot and played jigs on her pipe . |
12 | ‘ And now you ring her up on the day we get back from our honeymoon and get her to come down and tell you all about it ! |
13 | Okay , cos were going out , so we can pick her up on the way out , about seven ? |
14 | ‘ Could you not take her up to the castle , sir ? ’ |
15 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
16 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
17 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
18 | Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing . |
19 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
20 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
21 | Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation . |
22 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
23 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
24 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
25 | Her carried her up to the solar and delivered her over to the care of his sister and Ellen , leaving her with a look in his blue eyes that clearly said later . |
26 | Shelley , already on her feet , carried her up to the medical centre with Carlos 's help . |
27 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
28 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
29 | Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill . |
30 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |