Example sentences of "she [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 4 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 5 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 6 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
| 9 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 10 | She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 15 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 16 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 17 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 18 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 19 | She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes . |
| 20 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 21 | God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what . |
| 22 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 23 | Her thoughts were on the fact that it would be three months before she could move into her new abode , as she drove up the avenue . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 25 | She climbed up the ladder , the rungs cold under her bare feet , pushed open the unbolted doors and stepped out into the cockpit . |
| 26 | She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin . |
| 27 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 28 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 29 | The mare was breathing hard as she trotted up the pastureland . |
| 30 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |