Example sentences of "she [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she goes up Parker school so she was going , she said to Ange she was talking to Miss tomorrow . |
| 2 | Some rich toff she met up West , I dare say ? ’ |
| 3 | In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes . |
| 4 | she phoned up Ben about Caroline going out with and she goes erm , she goes erm Ben does Lewis like Jessica ? |
| 5 | This is indeed exactly what Moll does throughout the play , and especially when she beats up Laxton . |
| 6 | ‘ Alain has gone to visit Claudine 's parents , ’ Marguerite informed her as she dished up breakfast . |
| 7 | She woke up moments before you were going to put the box over her head.That is not so sir , was his reply . |
| 8 | She went to sleep for a respite , and when she woke up Stephen was in drafty self-possession . |
| 9 | She filled up Franca 's glass and her own . |
| 10 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 11 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 12 | " Yes , she turned up trumps , I 'll say that for her . " |
| 13 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 14 | In the space thus cleared next to Jack 's , she hung up Alison 's clothes . |
| 15 | She scooped up Victoria , ignoring her protests but for a quick kiss , and dropped her into her cot , gesturing Melanie to lie down . |
| 16 | She scooped up coffee-pot , bread-basket , jam-pots , Camembert , on to the tin tray , and made for the door . |
| 17 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 18 | Nina was silent for a moment then as she glanced up Rachel noticed a smile hovering about her lips . |
| 19 | Annabel did let slip that the first thing she had done when she packed up tennis as a career was to lose weight . |
| 20 | She carved up Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch at the same time as the bacon . |
| 21 | As soon as she returned from Cornwall , having called on Liza at Four Winds , she rang up Freddie and suggested a date . |
| 22 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 23 | She rang up Lizzie . |
| 24 | She picks up tones and drifts rather than actual words . |
| 25 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 26 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 27 | Her reaction , though , is physical — in a bar , she picks up Josef , a very improbable sex partner . |
| 28 | She gathered up Wordsworth and the string bag . |
| 29 | Sometimes if there was an illness in the house the sick person would join in the prayers through the open doors but when the silence was not broken he nodded to Mona and she took up Rose 's Decade . |
| 30 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |