Example sentences of "she [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 2 | She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms . |
| 3 | Into the shadows of the room came the beam of a powerful flashlight , and she flung up a hand to shield her eyes from its glare . |
| 4 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 5 | She , one day she tell me dat she saw a ghost — or somefing like a ghost , a person who come in the house — she tell me she pick up a brick and break i bones — de ting run like she no know what . |
| 6 | And erm did your mother work or was she bringing up the family ? |
| 7 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 8 | With the speed and precision of an avenging angel , she swooped up the net and tipped out the three squirming occupants , watching with grim satisfaction as they darted away . |
| 9 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 10 | She made up a poem for the diamond diamond jubilee . |
| 11 | In the morning , she made up a cot for Oreste , placing on the pillow a small felt rabbit Pilade had once loved . |
| 12 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 13 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 14 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 15 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 16 | But then her common sense took over , and she dredged up a smile . |
| 17 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 18 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 19 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 20 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
| 21 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 22 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 23 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 24 | She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger . |
| 25 | She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche . |
| 26 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 27 | She snatched up a towel and went to the entryphone . |
| 28 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 29 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 30 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |