Example sentences of "she [vb past] up the " in BNC.

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1 She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine .
2 Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again .
3 With the speed and precision of an avenging angel , she swooped up the net and tipped out the three squirming occupants , watching with grim satisfaction as they darted away .
4 After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe .
5 Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder .
6 She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her .
7 She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice .
8 She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me .
9 And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday
10 My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go .
11 Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself .
12 She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger .
13 She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet .
14 She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed .
15 Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face .
16 Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery .
17 Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number .
18 Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away .
19 She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his .
20 But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future .
21 After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal .
22 How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation .
23 Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs .
24 She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes .
25 God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what .
26 He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm .
27 Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope .
28 Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre .
29 Her thoughts were on the fact that it would be three months before she could move into her new abode , as she drove up the avenue .
30 Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path .
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