Example sentences of "she [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 2 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 3 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 4 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 5 | She builds up a full and fascinating portrait of a community with an acute sense of history which gives her descriptions a unique dimension . |
| 6 | While they were steaming on top of the savoury liquid she whipped up a small quantity of French dressing , sprinkled it on shredded lettuce and tomato slices , then added grated cheese and made some sandwiches . |
| 7 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 8 | From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant smile , still angry she had allowed this aggravating man to get beneath her defences . |
| 9 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 10 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 11 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 12 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 13 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 14 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 15 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 16 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 17 | She turned up a thin alley which was covered ; it was full of the shrill song of cage birds . |
| 18 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 19 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 20 | ‘ I loathe and detest you , Luke Travis , ’ Merrill whispered later , as she hung up the pink dress . |
| 21 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 22 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 23 | She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open . |
| 24 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 25 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 26 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 27 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 28 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 29 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 30 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |