Example sentences of "she [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 2 | She was looking up into Aggie 's face now . |
| 3 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 4 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 5 | Horrified , she was glancing up at one of the windows above the porch and what she saw blanched what little remaining colour she had from her face . |
| 6 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 7 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 8 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 9 | She was gazing up at him earnestly , a haunted , troubled quality about her expression , marring the beautiful lines of her oval-shaped face . |
| 10 | She was earning up to £180 an hour from rich clients . |
| 11 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 12 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 13 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 14 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 15 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 16 | She was standing up in just her T-shirt , pants and socks . |
| 17 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 18 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 19 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 20 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 21 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 22 | she lives in Barnside , she was coming up behind me and her husband and kids and I |
| 23 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 24 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 25 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 26 | She was sitting up in bed , and she drank , spluttered , and grinned . |
| 27 | She was sitting up in bed listening to the radio on the headphones . |
| 28 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 29 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 30 | She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed . |