Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 4 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 5 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 6 | She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen . |
| 7 | She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly . |
| 8 | Seeing that her employer 's eyes were once again drooping heavily , she got up from the bed . |
| 9 | She got up from the bed and started packing , throwing things haphazardly into her bag . |
| 10 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |
| 11 | As he came in , she got up from the couch and came across , embracing him , her eyes bright with excitement . |
| 12 | She got up from the table and poured herself out a glass of water , and then sat down again . |
| 13 | She got up from the table and walked into the conservatory with a bowl of fruit for her macaws . |
| 14 | She got up from the table , the food hardly touched on her plate . |
| 15 | When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She shouted up to the coachman , ‘ Make sure you take care of her ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog . |
| 25 | She woke up in the morning feeling heavy-eyed and with a dull headache lurking behind her eyes . |
| 26 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |
| 27 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |
| 28 | She squinted up at the sun . |
| 29 | Her lips set mutinously , she trudged up to the bathroom . |
| 30 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |