Example sentences of "[verb] her up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 2 | But you must see that she says her prayers at night , Antoinette exclaimed : how else can you bring her up a good Catholic ? |
| 3 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 4 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 5 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 6 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 7 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 8 | Instead , here she was , creeping around her own house like a burglar , trying to avoid a man who rubbed her up the wrong way . |
| 9 | Where 's the bedroom ? ’ he demanded roughly as he carried her up the wide curving staircase . |
| 10 | He wrapped her in a scarlet blanket , and carried her up the outside area steps . |