Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 4 | From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant smile , still angry she had allowed this aggravating man to get beneath her defences . |
| 5 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 8 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 11 | She turned up a thin alley which was covered ; it was full of the shrill song of cage birds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I loathe and detest you , Luke Travis , ’ Merrill whispered later , as she hung up the pink dress . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open . |
| 18 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 19 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 22 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 25 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 26 | Slowly , like a sleepwalker , she gathered up the torn , bruised straw and the scraps of ribbon from the bed and the floor , and put them in the hatbox . |
| 27 | Jumping defiantly onto Grace 's deck , she gathered up the surprised Stripey and hugged her close . |
| 28 | Now she has moved on again — in late October she took up a new appointment in Rotherham . |
| 29 | Grinning , she took up a seductive pose and started to wriggle her hips for him , swirling round sensually and then slowly undoing the clasp at her back . |
| 30 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |