Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bent to plump up the cushions . |
| 2 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 3 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 4 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 5 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 6 | ‘ And it has to be a good idea to stay on here , in the Hamptons , until tomorrow , ’ she added as she finished packing up the hampers . |
| 7 | She began rolling up the sleeves of her best dress . |
| 8 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 9 | With a feeling of being ill-used she started to clear up the remains of last night 's dinner , while drinking a freshly squeezed orange juice , then eating a bowl of cereal . |
| 10 | It was at ten minutes to nine when she decided to close up the shop . |
| 11 | But though the blood was pounding in her head and her vision was blurred she managed to take up the envelope again and lie down with it on her bed . |
| 12 | She went flying up the garden ! |
| 13 | Nevertheless , she did put up the money for the construction of Roshanara Bagh , a pleasure garden on the far outskirts of Shahjehanabad . |
| 14 | She paused to roll up the magazines and push them into her handbag , rummaging for her ticket . |
| 15 | She had moved up the shop , between the assortment of hats perched on stands and to the counter behind which the other two sisters were standing , the tall spare-looking Miss Rene and the almost diminutive Miss Florence . |
| 16 | She had called up the hall : |
| 17 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 18 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
| 19 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 20 | It was her body and the way she moved ; the thinness of her body and the way she had walked up the hotel steps . |
| 21 | She had to wash up the lunch things before she could get started . |
| 22 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 23 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 24 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 25 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 26 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 27 | I mean I wouldn't 've minded if she said come up the house like and she mentioned Cardiff but I 've gone so fat I do n't wan na go ! |
| 28 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 29 | She wanted to bring up the Catholic , he knew . |