Example sentences of "she have [verb] [pers pn] up " in BNC.

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1 She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her .
2 She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts .
3 Jane cocks an eyebrow and says that , if anything , she has fattened me up .
4 If only she 'd kept it up . ’
5 and they would actually send and I know why because erm John Lewis in London erm Jackie wanted some fabric and she 'd seen it up there and Harrods and erm she found out she did n't have her card with her , just her Barclaycard said would you post this we wou we 'll have to charge you , like , two pound
6 After three weeks , during which time it became clear she might be in her dotage before she mastered the Warsaw Concerto , she 'd given it up .
7 He 'd asked Amanda to lunch once , then again , and finally he had sounded her out , not minding the way she 'd sized him up , considering .
8 She 'd wrapped him up so well against the weather that he could hardly be seen in the middle of all his clothing .
9 I think she 'd liven it up .
10 She wondered where she 'd picked it up , and who was missing it .
11 She 'd erm was erm getting a pie out the oven and cos some of the juice went on the floor , she wiped it up thinking she 'd wiped it up properly and she did n't , she slipped , she 's broken a couple of bones in her foot .
12 That 's ah Mrs bloody dog oh bugger it , why should she have to clean it up , she should take it , put it in the bag and post it to the environmental health
13 She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City .
14 They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap .
15 ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’
16 Perhaps she had made it up altogether , and there had been nobody , no phantom , no sleep-walker , nothing .
17 She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago .
18 And gradually the school declined , until she had to give it up and retire to end her days in the white cottage with the inevitable cat as her only companion .
19 She had to give it up when she became too sick .
20 When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more .
21 Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche .
22 My sister , Mrs Joe Gargery , was very proud of the fact that she had brought me up ‘ by hand ’ .
23 Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away .
24 She had to roll them up .
25 From time to time she had to pull him up .
26 She had drawn it up to her chin .
27 Her legs were so swollen , she had to cover them up .
28 Washing a potato is only a small development from brushing earth off it , which is something all macaques do anyway ; but the separation of sand from wheat required Imo to throw away the food after she had picked it up , and then wait for the sand to sink , before she collected her food up again .
29 Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up .
30 It dangled past her fingertips , but she had bunched it up with a belt around her waist .
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