Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 2 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 3 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 4 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
| 6 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |
| 7 | It took a little under an hour , and when , at his instruction , she pulled up outside a small , dark cottage she thought she felt sick . |
| 8 | She pulled up outside a large Victorian house , collected her case , and walked smilingly up the steps to the front door . |
| 9 | She pulled up in a fair-sized stableyard attached to a farm which appeared to be miles from anywhere . |
| 10 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 11 | She curled up into a small ball , too tired to stay awake , but too scared to go to sleep in case she started to dream again . |
| 12 | She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart . |
| 13 | She reached up to a yellow tin of tobacco on one of the shelves . |
| 14 | She had the technique for the role — she sang up to a high F if necessary and could cope very well with the low undertones Salome has — and she had what is most important : a real erotic appeal in the voice . |
| 15 | She looked up with an absent smile . |
| 16 | She grew up into a grand ewe and produced a lot of lambs for us . |
| 17 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 18 | She grew up in a cultured and progressive home atmosphere . |
| 19 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 21 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |