Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 2 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 3 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 4 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 5 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 6 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 9 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 10 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 15 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 16 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 17 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 18 | Jo always had had the gift of the gab , she could make a stone laugh doing her imitation of Mr Silver trying to get her up behind the cloakroom door . |