Example sentences of "she [vb past] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 2 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 3 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 4 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 5 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 6 | ‘ I loathe and detest you , Luke Travis , ’ Merrill whispered later , as she hung up the pink dress . |
| 7 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 8 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 9 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 10 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 11 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 12 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 13 | Jumping defiantly onto Grace 's deck , she gathered up the surprised Stripey and hugged her close . |
| 14 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 15 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 16 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 17 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 18 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 19 | She went up the narrow stone stairs with infinite care , reflecting that the last thing she needed was to slip and sprain something , and peered cautiously around her . |
| 20 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 21 | She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham , Northumberland . |
| 22 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 23 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 24 | She picked up The Cheaper Sex with the tips of her bony , scarlet-nailed fingers . |
| 25 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 26 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 27 | She picked up the ginger kitten and held it cradled in the curve of her neck . |
| 28 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 29 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 30 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |