Example sentences of "she up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 32 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 33 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 34 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 35 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 36 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 37 | The child took no notice and made no sound when her father slapped one arm and yanked her up by the other . |
| 38 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 39 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 40 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 41 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 42 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 43 | She was glad to see Alice , began talking in a heavy tired voice about how the old woman had her running up and down the stairs , even got her up in the middle of the night . |
| 44 | Run along and do n't hurry back , ’ said Susan ; so Breeze tucked her up in the manner she thought befitting to an invalid , and ran up to put on her coat . |
| 45 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 46 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 47 | so if I get , put some of them in it will not wake her up in the morning |
| 48 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 49 | Jo always had had the gift of the gab , she could make a stone laugh doing her imitation of Mr Silver trying to get her up behind the cloakroom door . |
| 50 | In fact , Hyacinth was thinking about Wullie Robertson who , to her great surprise , had said he would pick her up from the Hospitality Inn after dinner , and take her on to the Young Conservatives Ball . |
| 51 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 52 | Pick her up from the hotel at nine tomorrow . ’ |
| 53 | The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van . |
| 54 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 55 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 56 | I picked her up from the hospital on my way back from a meeting on Kowloon-side . |
| 57 | He moved closer , pinning her up against the door . |
| 58 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |