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

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1 She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms .
2 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 .
3 And erm did your mother work or was she bringing up the family ?
4 Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again .
5 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 .
6 After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe .
7 Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder .
8 It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes .
9 Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ?
10 She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her .
11 She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice .
12 She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me .
13 And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday
14 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 .
15 She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility .
16 Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself .
17 She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger .
18 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 .
19 She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed .
20 Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face .
21 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 .
22 Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future .
26 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 .
27 How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation .
28 Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs .
29 She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes .
30 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 .
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