Example sentences of "her [noun] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Hullo my darlings , " Nicandra stood in a blinding shaft of sun , one hand held her shirt up to her chin , " How are you ? " |
| 2 | Drawing a deep breath , she pushed her bike up to the gate . |
| 3 | She counted them off , one by one , on the dial of her watch up to two o'clock . |
| 4 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |
| 5 | Turning from him , she pulled her blanket up to her shoulders and tried to recline her seat , frowning as she hunted for the button . |
| 6 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 7 | Maura rolled her eyes up to the ceiling . |
| 8 | With a shaky sigh , she moved her eyes up to his impassive face . |
| 9 | There was something in his tone that brought her eyes up to his in a look of vibrant anger . |
| 10 | Taking a deep breath , and casting her eyes up to the ceiling while she slowly counted to ten , Laura decided that motherhood was a highly overrated occupation . |
| 11 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 12 | The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly , drawing her legs up to his hips . |
| 13 | Hastily Paige drew her legs up to her chest , anchoring them with her arms . |
| 14 | She pulled her knees up to her chin , hugging them for comfort , thinking about Saturday and York , and Julia , who had reluctantly agreed to alibi her . |
| 15 | She pulled both her knees up to her chin , and opened herself wide for the cock she was so desperate to have inside her . |
| 16 | Down she sat on the shovel with her knees up to her chin . |
| 17 | She retreated back downstairs , and climbed on to the mildewed sofa , hugging her knees up to her chin . |
| 18 | She brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her goose-bumped arms around them . |
| 19 | Having experienced that particular chaos , she was careful to keep her books up to date , a simple matter of filling in two columns each day , ‘ Purchases made ’ and ‘ Total cash takings ’ . |
| 20 | A JILTED woman who rang her ex-boyfriend up to 36 times a day has been cleared of phone pest charges because she was in love . |
| 21 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 22 | She left the inscription on her headstone up to her parents . |
| 23 | Fran laughed softly , meeting his gaze as she twisted her hips up to his . |
| 24 | She brought her nose up to my hand , then leapt backwards , opened her mouth and tried to vomit . |
| 25 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
| 26 | His fingers traced a line from her groin up to her chin , forcing her to look back at him . |
| 27 | Slowly she brought her finger up to the doorbell . |
| 28 | But you are also quite … adorable , ’ he mocked softly , his voice deepening as he tilted her chin up to his inspection . |
| 29 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
| 30 | The icy wind cut across her face as she opened the door and she zipped her anorak up to her throat and tugged the protective hood over her head . |