Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up in pain , and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to the tourist office right now , to see if there 's anywhere I can stay tonight — ’ A sea of uplifted faces swam into her vision , and she coloured up with embarrassment . |
| 3 | In the night she crept up to Angel 's room and pushed the letter under his door . |
| 4 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 5 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 6 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 7 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 8 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 9 | When she caught up with Nick , he said , ‘ What are you laughing for ? ’ |
| 10 | Later she caught up with Bob , the producer . |
| 11 | She caught up with Pascoe by the lifts and told him she would like to talk . |
| 12 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 13 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 14 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 15 | She woke up on cobblestones , surrounded by a rich fog . |
| 16 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 17 | And then she fell down , not knowing anything more until she woke up in Ma 's big bed . |
| 18 | At last , worn out , she tiptoed up to bed , but she was too tired to sleep . |
| 19 | She sang along with the radio as she drove up through Gloucestershire and crossed into Wales by way of Abergavenny and Brecon , then took the road north towards Builth Wells , to the wooded hills south of the town where Penry 's house occupied a vantage point above the River Wye . |
| 20 | Sophia could see the light on in the hall as she came up to Ianthe 's front door , but the front rooms were in darkness . |
| 21 | She came up to London once and we spent a wonderful evening at the opera and a morning in Liberty 's . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , sir , I went down to see Claudia Cohn-Casson , the anthropologist , whom I have known slightly on and off , whenever she came up to town , over the last few years . ’ |
| 23 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 24 | She came up in front of my parents and said : ‘ Would you like to take this home , put a sample in it and we 'll do a sperm count for you ? ’ |
| 25 | The child was an expense , of course , but she seemed up to date with her garments , her school trips . |
| 26 | She would see it when she climbed up to bed that night . |
| 27 | The owner of the London stage school which she attends said she turned up to school every day with the right lunch money and with her uniform clean . |
| 28 | When she turned up at Buckingham University in her newly ennobled capacity she showed nothing had changed . |
| 29 | But ITN man Michael said : ‘ Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved . ’ |
| 30 | She turned up at Woolhope in Herefordshire yesterday ready to climb into the cage . |