Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday dropped a legal bid to divorce her parents after she made up with her mother . |
| 2 | She lived up to her reputation and cruised to victory in the woman 's event . |
| 3 | It was something of a standing joke that she lived up to her Libran indecisiveness . |
| 4 | The tears welled , beautifully , in her eyes as she gazed up into his face , then down in sorrow . |
| 5 | She gazed up into his face with bemused wonder and saw an expression there that did n't make sense . |
| 6 | She flung herself upon Silas , grasping his arms as she gazed up into his face , and despite the presence of Lucy and Jean she wailed contritely , ‘ Silas , darling — I 'm so sorry . |
| 7 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked , as she got up off her knees . |
| 8 | At five o'clock she got up from her desk . |
| 9 | She got up from her seat and manhandled Caitlin from the room . |
| 10 | She got up from her knees and made shooing gestures . |
| 11 | She got up from her chair and went over to him . |
| 12 | She got up from her chair . |
| 13 | She got up from her chair . |
| 14 | She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter . |
| 15 | Getting the message , by controlling the call , through asking open questions , and also remembering to ask closed questions if you wanted to control the call , shutting up a chatterbox , as with Mrs Waffle , when she phoned up about her Gloria . |
| 16 | Five minutes later she came up to my room . |
| 17 | She came up on her elbow . |
| 18 | my credulity when she wandered over the Moors and she was at death 's door , and she turned up at her cousins ' |
| 19 | She turned up at his flat not having bothered to go home and change , more than a little tired and jaded after an extremely hard working day . |
| 20 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 21 | On making these decisions , her panic attacks stopped and were replaced by a mixture of emotions as she faced up to her fear of intimacy and commitment , and her excitement and uncertainty over becoming a mature student . |
| 22 | She walked up to her husband and faced him . |
| 23 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 24 | She glanced up at her mother with a brief , strained smile , pushing back her chair quickly as she stood up . |
| 25 | Treacherous relief replaced amusement and was followed by a great surge of pure excitement as she glanced up at their apartment building . |
| 26 | Then she glanced up at his face . |
| 27 | She bobbed up at his side like a terrier , treading water . |
| 28 | ’ But whatever the explanation , it does n't excuse the stones she piled up during her childhood . |
| 29 | After the assault , and before she broke up with her boyfriend earlier this year , Miss C went to a German gynaecologist , in her own home town . |
| 30 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |