Example sentences of "and [verb] her up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 2 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 3 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 4 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't take a black child into a white home and bring her up as your own . ’ |
| 6 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 7 | He bent , clasped her wrist , and drew her up beside him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He reached down and bundled her up into his arms , trying to drown the feeble cries of pain that she uttered , reassuring her that everything would be all right . |
| 10 | Eve had said not only was she going to be free for lunch , she would meet Benny off the bus and walk her up to University College . |
| 11 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 12 | No , ’ he muttered , rising easily to his feet and pulling her up with him . |
| 13 | ‘ Too right it is ! ’ he agreed , reaching for her with masterly precision and pulling her up against him , ignoring her small cry of outrage . |
| 14 | I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before . |
| 15 | ‘ Take her in the kitchen , Salt , and fill her up with gruel or some such thing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We intend to keep it in its present immaculate condition and to taxi her up to take-off speeds at regular intervals to keep the engines and flight systems in perfect working order . |
| 17 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 18 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 19 | He jumped to his feet and pulled her up after him . |
| 20 | Griffin , 27 , was also ordered to not to contact Lynn and pay her up to £6,500 compensation at Santa Monica Superior Court , Los Angeles . |
| 21 | Put her in a hole and stoned her and covered her up with earth before she was dead . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the baby was born , the O'Dells adopted her — a darling little girl , dark and pretty — and brought her up as their own , with Connor and Sean . |
| 24 | ‘ I learned this fact , ’ continued the great man , ‘ from Mrs Reed , the kind lady who took care of her after her parents ’ death and brought her up as a member of the family . |
| 25 | He caught her behind the sofa and whirled her up in his arms . |
| 26 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Her husband had been taken into hospital and she was waiting for her son to come and pick her up at half past twelve , this was at half past ten in morning ! |
| 29 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 30 | Jack looped an arm round her shoulders and tugged her up against his side . |