Example sentences of "up in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Keith moved into a cold , damp flat together when she was pregnant , from which they were moved into a hotel before ending up in her present home , on the outskirts of a sprawling town . |
| 2 | Hector had clung close to Theda , and was even now shut up in her tiny bedchamber , where he had taken to sleeping . |
| 3 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 4 | A damp heat was building up in her lower body , unbearably tantalising . |
| 5 | That 's one thing Mrs Porter always forgets , wrapped up in her marvellous cooking . |
| 6 | She arrived at last an hour or so later , swerving up in her blue sports car , its boot piled with a large amount of luggage . |
| 7 | Coached by her father , John , she was runner up in her first tournament [ the Grampian Closed ] , and this was the start of her rise to her present position as number one in Scotland . |
| 8 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 9 | Auntie Jean 's spare room , in which Mum lay curled up in her pink nightie , her hair unbrushed , had one entire wall made of mirrored cupboards which were stuffed with old but glittering evening dresses from the perfumed days . |
| 10 | It 's not my place to talk about her , anyway , but she is wrapped up in her own life , and her husband 's politics — she met him when she belonged to some very radical student group at Oxford . |
| 11 | A ninety-one year old woman , who was beaten up in her own home , has had to have her left eye removed . |
| 12 | Then I undressed her , and dressed her up in her own clothes , she acquiescent as a little child , talking all the time about the snowdrops , and how the days were beginning to draw out — and everything except people , and the circumstances in which we found ourselves . |
| 13 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 14 | ’ I think Baroness Faithful should put them up in her own house.Or her own town.Why come here ? ’ |
| 15 | 91 year old Hilda Jones was left with a broken jaw , cheekbone and arm after being beaten up in her own bathroom . |
| 16 | By the later stages of the performance he had become increasingly sulky , though the fräulein , wrapped up in her own problems as usual , seemed not to notice . |
| 17 | Because her precious daughter was too selfish , too bound up in her own misery to care that other people were hurt ! |
| 18 | Steve sat as mute as herself but she was so wrapped up in her own misery that she did n't question why he was so quiet . |
| 19 | But she 'd probably been too wrapped up in her own misery to notice anyone elses . |
| 20 | Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs . |
| 21 | Incredible as it seemed , she 'd been too caught up in her own unhappiness to give a second 's thought to the play , which was due to open that very evening . |
| 22 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 23 | Margaret Thatcher was sitting up in her double bed at the Hospitality Inn giving dictation to two secretaries . |
| 24 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |
| 25 | She bit her lip , weighing up in her confused mind where to run . |