Example sentences of "she [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again .
4 Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder .
5 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 .
6 Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself .
7 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 .
8 Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed .
12 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 .
13 Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs .
14 How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation .
15 She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope .
19 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 .
20 Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path .
21 She climbed up the ladder , the rungs cold under her bare feet , pushed open the unbolted doors and stepped out into the cockpit .
22 She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin .
23 Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy .
24 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 .
25 The mare was breathing hard as she trotted up the pastureland .
26 As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role .
27 With a tea cloth around her hand she opened up the oven and took out the mince pies and sausage rolls , placing them on the top of the stove to cool as she put the turkey in to cook .
28 And she toiled up the duneside , her huge backside quaking .
29 Turning round , she folded up the collar of her black T-shirt experimentally and , liking the effect , fastened a double row of pearls around it .
30 Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope .
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