Example sentences of "[verb] up from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 2 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 3 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 4 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 5 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 6 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 7 | Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining . |
| 8 | You had to be the , the perfect woman who was one , who had grown up from the little girl of the eighteen-thirties who was all bouncy and skippy and optimistic ; now she had to be very quiet , she was admired for her innocence , for her delicate nature and her dainty physique . |
| 9 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 10 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 11 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 12 | All counting numbers , or " natural " numbers are made up from the same group of symbols or figures : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 . |
| 13 | He believes that the jets may originate from ‘ dikes ’ — a geological term for tilted strata or layers or others particularly dusty areas which might stick up from the surrounding surface . |
| 14 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 15 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 16 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 17 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 18 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 19 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 20 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 21 | Downstairs there were two rooms , and a short staircase led up from the front door to two attic bedrooms with tiny skylights in the roof . |
| 22 | Huge cracks appeared in the social system and a new spirit welled up from the very core of the nation and flowed over everything . |
| 23 | Instead , the mechanism inside the cylinder allows the ‘ primary ’ circuit to be filled up from the cold water supply to the hot water cylinder When it is full , a large air bubble prevents the two mixing — provided the water in the boiler circuit is never allowed to boil . |
| 24 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 25 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 26 | Taking a deep breath , Mungo leapt up from the sagging mattress , clutched the sill , and heaved with all his might . |
| 27 | You may be lucky enough to hear the sound , coming up from the very earth beneath your feet . |
| 28 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 29 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 30 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |