Example sentences of "she was [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was flung up into madness , as she rode the whirlwind . |
| 2 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 3 | She was looking up into Aggie 's face now . |
| 4 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 5 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 6 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 7 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 8 | Before she left the Grand Hotel for the opening of the conference , she was chatted up by a ponderous Patrick Cormack , a chastened Colin Moynihan and an eager Charles Harvey . |
| 9 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 10 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 11 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 14 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 15 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 16 | Much before she was ready she was whisked up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home , deposited outside his elegant and graceful house , and , even while she wanted to call the driver back , he was already on his way . |
| 17 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 18 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 19 | As she was swept up in his passion she forgot everything except her need for him . |
| 20 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 21 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was gazing up at him earnestly , a haunted , troubled quality about her expression , marring the beautiful lines of her oval-shaped face . |
| 24 | Did it for his wife actually because she was fed up of knitting stockings . |
| 25 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 26 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 27 | But yesterday , possums , Dame Edna Everage revealed that she was fed up with rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous . |
| 28 | She had told him she was fed up with plays about love — which she spelled out ‘ l-u-v ’ as if she were saying ‘ b-e-d ’ to another grown-up in front of a child who might be going to throw a tantrum — and that she wanted to hear about some public issues for a change . |
| 29 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 30 | She was fed up with her life in London , a whirlwind of social engagements which recently had seemed unbearably shallow , and more to the point she needed time to put her engagement to Jonathan , or rather her decision to break it off , into perspective . |