Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] me up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | that , any cancellation she 'd ring me up . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She used to ring me up , just to hear an adult voice that could talk . ’ |
| 7 | If I did say something , perhaps she would gobble me up like the fox did to poor Chicken-Licken . |