Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see .
2 But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology .
3 She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's .
4 She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate .
5 She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over .
6 But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered .
7 One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust .
8 Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning .
9 She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning .
10 By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back .
11 There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her .
12 She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads .
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