Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 31 | Moll 's denunciation of Laxton before she beats him up shows that the thrashing is partly in revenge for his not untypical masculine blend of misogyny and licentiousness ( cf. ii . |
| 32 | ‘ She beats us up for kicks . ’ |
| 33 | She bunched it up and placed it on her thighs . |
| 34 | She looks me up and down and says , ‘ I 'm Mr Newbegin 's wife . ’ |
| 35 | She snatched them up , pushed back the table , struggled past Yvonne and rushed to the door . |
| 36 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 37 | She snatched it up and thrust it into her bag , her glance flicking up to yet another magnificent view . |
| 38 | The phone rang , and she snatched it up . |
| 39 | she , she cracked me up she said I left she says no do n't , do n't , do n't , do n't it 's too , it was a bit like |
| 40 | She is so funny she cracked me up . |
| 41 | By this time Mum is worried about me , but she covers it up by joking . |
| 42 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 43 | I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me ! |
| 44 | Er , she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up |
| 45 | She firmed it up . |
| 46 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 47 | She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota . |
| 48 | A few minutes later he was jerking around in the grip of an atrocious dream , and she woke him up . |
| 49 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 50 | She woke me up and when I discovered the fire I got my mum and dad out of the house . |
| 51 | She gobbled him up with it . |
| 52 | Should she intervene , should she break them up , or should she ignore her uninvited guest , pretend , professionally , never to have set eyes on her before ? |
| 53 | She lifted it up and saw that long ago the batteries had leaked and burnt the wood . |
| 54 | Cos underneath it , I mean it did n't look nice but when she lifted it up it 's how mine was , like it is now , flat underneath . |
| 55 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 56 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 57 | Lyn took one of the gravel paths into the grounds of the general hospital , walking towards the sun that dazzled her eyes so that she screwed them up against it . |
| 58 | She turned it up as hot as it would go and put them in on a tray . |
| 59 | After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house . |
| 60 | We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out . |