Example sentences of "she was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 2 | Before she left the Grand Hotel for the opening of the conference , she was chatted up by a ponderous Patrick Cormack , a chastened Colin Moynihan and an eager Charles Harvey . |
| 3 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 4 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 5 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 6 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 7 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 8 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 9 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 10 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 11 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 12 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 13 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 14 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 15 | And when , within five weeks of returning from that injury , she was beaten up by a yob , she still did n't dream of quitting . |
| 16 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 17 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 18 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 19 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 20 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 21 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 22 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 23 | She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter . |
| 24 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 25 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 26 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 27 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 28 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 29 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 30 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |