Example sentences of "she [vb -s] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms . |
| 2 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 3 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 4 | She reckons up the change over an' over like she do n't trust me , ’ I admitted reluctantly . |
| 5 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 6 | And where she blows up the lorry . |
| 7 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 8 | Me friend over in Norway , she said she 's she got over there and sat down and she thought , yes , she 's got the Complete Works of Shakespeare , I 'll have a whale of a time trying to read it , she picks up the book , it 's all in Norwegian . |
| 9 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , fashion pundits were speculating last night that although Anne is likely to splash out on a new outfit , she will be wearing an old hat when she walks up the aisle . |