Example sentences of "[vb past] she up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 2 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 3 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 4 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 5 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was glad to see Alice , began talking in a heavy tired voice about how the old woman had her running up and down the stairs , even got her up in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 10 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 11 | Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van . |
| 15 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 16 | Run along and do n't hurry back , ’ said Susan ; so Breeze tucked her up in the manner she thought befitting to an invalid , and ran up to put on her coat . |
| 17 | The child took no notice and made no sound when her father slapped one arm and yanked her up by the other . |
| 18 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 21 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 22 | I picked her up from the hospital on my way back from a meeting on Kowloon-side . |
| 23 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 24 | Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill . |
| 25 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 26 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |