Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 2 | Cos she ran up the garden . |
| 3 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 4 | Moira McVitie is fairly putting on the beef since she gave up the teaching when wee Scott was born . |
| 5 | The New York Film Critics Circle gave Emma , 33 , its top honour after she picked up the DW Griffith and Los Angeles Critics awards for her portrayal of Helen Schlegel in the adaptation of E M Forster 's novel , Howards End . |
| 6 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 7 | God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what . |
| 8 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 9 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 10 | she heard when she picked up the phone . |
| 11 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 12 | Her hands were shaking when she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of Sabrina 's flat . |
| 13 | Ven was her first thought when she picked up the receiver . |
| 14 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 15 | Her thoughts were on the fact that it would be three months before she could move into her new abode , as she drove up the avenue . |
| 16 | Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town . |
| 17 | As she ran up the garden , her legs felt soft and boneless under her ; she had the terrible feeling that they might collapse altogether if she did n't hurry and find somewhere private , somewhere nice and safe and dark . |
| 18 | Lucien watched her as she gathered up the sticks . |
| 19 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 20 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 21 | Sophie nodded as she cleaned up the wound , then , after giving an injection of antibiotic , she stood for a moment in thought . |
| 22 | As she collected up the plates and covers herself and went without Miss Vine 's twelve p , the face of Timothy Gedge appeared in her mind , causing her to feel sick in the stomach . |
| 23 | From under the chair I watched as she scooped up the mess into a cloth , and dropped it in the bin . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 25 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 26 | Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition . |
| 27 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 28 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 29 | She looked very young and pretty as she held up the teapot and Francis Morgan hesitated , then sat down , heavily , and seized two biscuits . |
| 30 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |