Example sentences of "she be [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's getting up speed now just-like she does with the hammer . |
| 2 | It 's a Suzuki 185GT her brother used tae have , but she 's saving up fur a Gold Wing . ’ |
| 3 | So , instead of toying with a carrot and lettuce leaf , 30-year-old Julie tucks into a delicious , three-course meal at a smart London hotel , declining chocolates and coffee only because she 's given up caffeine . |
| 4 | ( Well , since she 's given up weather forecasting in favour of presenting The Gladiat-ors . ) |
| 5 | She 's taking up journalism , you know , ’ |
| 6 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 7 | She was conducted up flights of stone stairs with wrought-iron balustrades to her huge room , whose walls were painted a bright dark blue — a colour which reminded her of a postcard of Van Gogh 's " Starry Night " , and even more of the colour behind the fleurs de lys on the banners in Olivier 's film of Henry V. Its powdery darkness amazed her : no English room was ever dark blue : maybe this was more like Reckitt 's blue ? |
| 8 | Sometimes she felt she was crunching up shards of glass , blood all over her mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 10 | He had met Rose , recognised what she was , and guessed why she was going up West , and what for , and he was suddenly certain that while McAllister might be a member of a sophisticated society she knew little of the world that Rose Bailey lived in . |
| 11 | Rain thought she was conjuring up keys , clutched in the fingers of the dead man . |
| 12 | At the moment she was cutting up courgettes and dropping them into a saucepan containing peppers and onions and tomatoes . |
| 13 | She was under no illusions — she knew he could never feel the same way about her , she knew too that she was storing up heartbreak for herself . |