Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 2 | It was er and when she got worked up about that Fancy Goods place |
| 3 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 4 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 5 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 6 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 7 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 8 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 9 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 10 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 11 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 12 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 13 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 14 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 15 | It did n't feel like it , in spite of the decorations she had put up with such care , and the pile of letters and parcels waiting on the table to be opened tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man . |
| 17 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 18 | ‘ At first she wanted to sit up until four or five in the morning , just talking . |