Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through dazed , clouded eyes she gazed up at him , the taste of his kiss still tingling on her mouth , her heart beating an erratic tattoo within her breast . |
| 2 | She frowned , shaking her head , then as the name rang a bell in her mind she looked up quickly . |
| 3 | After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home . |
| 4 | In the middle of eating she got up to telephone . |
| 5 | And the picnic she put up for us was first-rate . |
| 6 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 7 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 8 | As his hand lifted from her neck she looked up . |
| 9 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 10 | On a Saturday she went up to the attic . |
| 11 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 12 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 13 | The report says her conversion appears genuine and points to the cabinet-level environment committee she set up to convert the ‘ ungreen and powerful ’ Treasury , transport , and energy ministries , but time was running out . |
| 14 | Returning to the desk she made up her face , powdering carefully about her eyes . |
| 15 | I wa I usually and then lock it and th and when there was visitors she opened up and she left the front door wide open and in there rummaging around ! |
| 16 | Seeing Thérèse and Léonie watching her from an upstairs window she straightened up , smiled , waved . |
| 17 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 18 | Between whiles she got up and looked out of the window , watching the pale sunshine come and go on the elaborate mouldings and cornices of the offices on the opposite side of Hand and Ball Court , until she realized she was being watched from a window of the floor above by two young men in shirtsleeves . |
| 19 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 20 | With a disconsolate sigh she stood up , slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair . |
| 21 | Oh Carolina is a girl she buck up in the |
| 22 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 23 | She finds it hard to explain why , but ponders that it may have something to do with the religious faith she grew up with . |
| 24 | With difficulty she stared up again at the unreachable sky beyond the bars and wire mesh of her cage and though she tried to say more she was unable to , for her wings sagged ever more weakly and she seemed barely able to hold up her head . |
| 25 | When you erm pound your chest she jumps up and hugs you . |
| 26 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 27 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 28 | When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter . |
| 29 | So I stay there just in case she wakes up . |
| 30 | When asked about Sarah she turned up her nose and sniffed . |