Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , of course , she must take it up … his wife was mad on it . |
| 2 | She might have it up there but I 've got it up there . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I know she 'll eat him up . ’ |
| 4 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |
| 5 | Well the , all the others go on a Saturday but Heidi said she would be in it if she did n't have to go on Saturday , every Saturday , because she goes riding you see at nine o'clock nine till four so er Wendy said oh she 'll have her up on a Sunday afternoon the two or three principals . |
| 6 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 7 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 8 | gon na be next thing , at least it 's gon na be right time cos summer 's coming up , so I reckon she 'll pick it up pretty quick , I do n't think you 'll have |
| 9 | If a grip could be got on the parcel , maybe she could thread it up between the wood and through ? |
| 10 | And our had loads and loads of stuff and because it 's it was red hot so she could fold it up and say |
| 11 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 12 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 13 | She did the one thing she could to screw them up by killing herself first . |
| 14 | She was n't sure really how long she could keep it up — since after all , he was most probably here to stay … |
| 15 | I also wanted to see Mussolini , who was coming to Trieste on an official visit , so I wrote to my godmother 's sister , Poldka , who lived there , to ask if she could put me up . |
| 16 | With this rubbish tip of information she then came to me to ask how she could write it up into a dissertation . |
| 17 | It was an unhappy morning , and a sulky afternoon , and when towards evening Clarissa had collected enough moral courage to approach the telephone , it rang for an incoming call before she could pick it up . |
| 18 | Not as fa not the dancing but when she was working in an office you know they just needed to show her something once and she could pick it up . |
| 19 | that , any cancellation she 'd ring me up . |
| 20 | Yeah yeah and she 'd phone you up and see how you answered it and that sort of thing . |
| 21 | She walked to the main doors with him and said a quick ‘ Goodnight ’ , reminding him that she 'd pick him up at eleven the following morning . |
| 22 | She used to cheer us up . |
| 23 | She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’ |
| 24 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |
| 25 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 26 | She used to ring me up , just to hear an adult voice that could talk . ’ |
| 27 | of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start . |
| 28 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 29 | Because he believed that she would make it up , he knew she would , damn him . |
| 30 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |