Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 2 | She was as at home in jeans , hiking over rough country , as she was curled up in silk lounging pyjamas , reading a book . |
| 3 | Although T. never became a member of the sect she was brought up in accordance with its tenets . |
| 4 | She was brought up in County Dublin and educated at a convent school and at Dublin 's University College . |
| 5 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 6 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 7 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 8 | She was sitting up in bed , and she drank , spluttered , and grinned . |
| 9 | She was sitting up in bed listening to the radio on the headphones . |
| 10 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 11 | She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed . |
| 12 | She was sitting up in bed in a profusion of little pillows . |
| 13 | She was sitting up in bed , some few days later , tugging a recalcitrant comb through her long tresses , when a commotion from downstairs made her pause , her fingers still . |