Example sentences of "she [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this
2 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 .
3 She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano .
4 A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England .
5 Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above .
6 Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling .
7 She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford .
8 She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen .
9 She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly .
10 Seeing that her employer 's eyes were once again drooping heavily , she got up from the bed .
11 She got up from the bed and started packing , throwing things haphazardly into her bag .
12 She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee .
13 As he came in , she got up from the couch and came across , embracing him , her eyes bright with excitement .
14 She got up from the table and poured herself out a glass of water , and then sat down again .
15 She got up from the table and walked into the conservatory with a bowl of fruit for her macaws .
16 She got up from the table , the food hardly touched on her plate .
17 When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate .
18 Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night .
19 As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint .
20 She shouted up to the coachman , ‘ Make sure you take care of her !
21 She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them .
22 But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top .
23 What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House .
24 She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai .
25 And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’
26 Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future .
27 She scuffed up to the altar in her carpet slippers , and stood next to Clare , with the ill-tempered , tight-lipped expression she always adopted when in church or in the presence of the clergy .
28 As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles .
29 Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor .
30 I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore .
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