Example sentences of "she [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 2 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 3 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 4 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 5 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 6 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 7 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 8 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 9 | ‘ I loathe and detest you , Luke Travis , ’ Merrill whispered later , as she hung up the pink dress . |
| 10 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 11 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 12 | She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open . |
| 13 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 14 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 15 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 16 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 17 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 18 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 19 | Slowly , like a sleepwalker , she gathered up the torn , bruised straw and the scraps of ribbon from the bed and the floor , and put them in the hatbox . |
| 20 | Jumping defiantly onto Grace 's deck , she gathered up the surprised Stripey and hugged her close . |
| 21 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 22 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 24 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 25 | Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow , cheerless stairs she 'd last climbed before her interview . |
| 26 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 27 | She went up the narrow stone stairs with infinite care , reflecting that the last thing she needed was to slip and sprain something , and peered cautiously around her . |
| 28 | She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham , Northumberland . |
| 29 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 30 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |