Example sentences of "she and [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 2 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 3 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 4 | A MOTHER lay dying on the floor of her home for a week while her 12-year-old son ignored her and lived it up with his pals , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 5 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 6 | Put her in a hole and stoned her and covered her up with earth before she was dead . |
| 7 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |