Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was flung up into madness , as she rode the whirlwind . |
| 2 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 3 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 9 | Much before she was ready she was whisked up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home , deposited outside his elegant and graceful house , and , even while she wanted to call the driver back , he was already on his way . |
| 10 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 11 | As she was swept up in his passion she forgot everything except her need for him . |
| 12 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 13 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |
| 14 | Did it for his wife actually because she was fed up of knitting stockings . |
| 15 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 16 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 17 | But yesterday , possums , Dame Edna Everage revealed that she was fed up with rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous . |
| 18 | She had told him she was fed up with plays about love — which she spelled out ‘ l-u-v ’ as if she were saying ‘ b-e-d ’ to another grown-up in front of a child who might be going to throw a tantrum — and that she wanted to hear about some public issues for a change . |
| 19 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 20 | She was fed up with her life in London , a whirlwind of social engagements which recently had seemed unbearably shallow , and more to the point she needed time to put her engagement to Jonathan , or rather her decision to break it off , into perspective . |
| 21 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 22 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 23 | But last night Pauline Dale , of Newtown Coaches , said she was fed up with passengers continually ‘ sticking the knife in ’ . |
| 24 | One girl at the safe house said she was beaten up by two other girls trying to persuade her to ‘ go on the game ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 27 | when she was cut up at Craven Arms . |
| 28 | In February of this year she was locked up in chains after giving herself up . |
| 29 | Instead she was holed up for goodness knew how long with a man who clearly despised her — and not without reason , she admitted silently , leaning her forehead against the cold glass of the window . |
| 30 | 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 . |