Example sentences of "she [verb] up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up in pain , and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor . |
| 2 | She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself . |
| 3 | And I get it green for when she stands up in class . |
| 4 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 5 | ‘ Strange how often she crops up in conversation . |
| 6 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 7 | She came up in front of my parents and said : ‘ Would you like to take this home , put a sample in it and we 'll do a sperm count for you ? ’ |
| 8 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 9 | ‘ Put me down , you lecherous old goat ! ’ she said with a laugh , and , pushing him away , she straightend up in time to see That Man emerge from Jim 's old office with Ben Bradshaw , the senior registrar . |
| 10 | She pulled up in front of the massive Moorish-style stone mansion that was Fernando Serra 's home , and Maria Luisa 's , of course . |
| 11 | As she curled up in bed once more she reflected that it would be very nice to have a third person in the house , quite apart from the fact that Gay was her best friend . |
| 12 | She looked up in surprise ; she swallowed her mouthful of chocolate digestive , and tried to stand up . |
| 13 | She looked up in surprise to see Jason with an unusually serious expression on his face . |
| 14 | Rachel stared at the ground and wished they 'd all go home , but when her father spoke again she looked up in surprise . |
| 15 | A sudden sound in the doorway startled her and she looked up in fear . |
| 16 | What she lacks in sartorial sense she makes up in fun . |
| 17 | She stood up in annoyance . |
| 18 | Like a rabbit she ran across the course to intercept Anmer and as the horse was hugging the rails she stood up in front of him holding both her hands above her head , and then sprang at him . |
| 19 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 20 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 21 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Angry with herself , she sat up in bed , turned on the light ( wonderful electric light ) , and reaching for one of the three modern novels laid out for her , forced herself to read . |
| 23 | She sat up in bed , rubbed the sleep from her eyes and blew irritably at a hanging strand of her hair . |
| 24 | But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good . |
| 25 | She sat up in bed . |
| 26 | But he was wrong , as Laura pointed out nine months later when she sat up in bed , proudly holding three-day-old David and James in her arms . |
| 27 | Confused , she sat up in bed raking her hair from her face . |
| 28 | She sat up in bed , freeing herself from Lowell 's arms . |
| 29 | She sat up in horror . |
| 30 | She ended up in conflict with co-leader Terry Butler after being selected to join the force . |