Example sentences of "she [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms . |
| 2 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 3 | And erm did your mother work or was she bringing up the family ? |
| 4 | With the speed and precision of an avenging angel , she swooped up the net and tipped out the three squirming occupants , watching with grim satisfaction as they darted away . |
| 5 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 6 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 7 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 8 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 9 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 10 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 11 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 12 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 13 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 14 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 15 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 16 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 17 | She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes . |
| 18 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 19 | God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what . |
| 20 | I 'd never give him instead of bought for her for her christening she match up the jacket and sh the socks , the socks what somebody just bought for her . |
| 21 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 22 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 23 | Her thoughts were on the fact that it would be three months before she could move into her new abode , as she drove up the avenue . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 25 | She reckons up the change over an' over like she do n't trust me , ’ I admitted reluctantly . |
| 26 | She climbed up the ladder , the rungs cold under her bare feet , pushed open the unbolted doors and stepped out into the cockpit . |
| 27 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 28 | She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin . |
| 29 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 30 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |