Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 2 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 3 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 4 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 5 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 6 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 7 | She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly . |
| 8 | She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen . |
| 9 | She got up from the table and poured herself out a glass of water , and then sat down again . |
| 10 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |
| 11 | She got up from the table and walked into the conservatory with a bowl of fruit for her macaws . |
| 12 | As he came in , she got up from the couch and came across , embracing him , her eyes bright with excitement . |
| 13 | Seeing that her employer 's eyes were once again drooping heavily , she got up from the bed . |
| 14 | She got up from the table , the food hardly touched on her plate . |
| 15 | She got up from the bed and started packing , throwing things haphazardly into her bag . |
| 16 | When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate . |
| 17 | Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night . |
| 18 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 19 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 20 | She shouted up to the coachman , ‘ Make sure you take care of her ! |
| 21 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 22 | She might have succeeded in reaching him , but the tree was laden with apples and as she moved up among the higher branches where the fruit had almost ripened , apples began to cascade down . |
| 23 | She scuffed up to the altar in her carpet slippers , and stood next to Clare , with the ill-tempered , tight-lipped expression she always adopted when in church or in the presence of the clergy . |
| 24 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 25 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 26 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 27 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |
| 28 | But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog . |
| 29 | She woke up in the morning feeling heavy-eyed and with a dull headache lurking behind her eyes . |
| 30 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |