Example sentences of "[verb] her up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 2 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 3 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 4 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 5 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 6 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 7 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 8 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
| 9 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 10 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 11 | The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink . |
| 12 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 13 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 14 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 15 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 16 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 17 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 19 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 20 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 21 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 22 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 23 | that er you 're not you know , take her back on a Sunday but you 're not picking her up on a Friday , I said she 's got a train pass make her come home |
| 24 | And then do n't , you no need take her home you see , because it 's only just picking her up on a Tuesday . |
| 25 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 26 | By the way , when she reappears , would you mind telling her I 'll be back to pick her up at the end of this afternoon ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 28 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 29 | He reached for her , pulling her up onto the sofa beside him and putting his arm around her . |
| 30 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |