Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 2 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 3 | Howls of laughter went up from the other boys . |
| 4 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
| 5 | Mick spoke up from the other tent . |
| 6 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 7 | Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening . |
| 8 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 9 | Walter Carew raised his head and stared at the grey tendrils of smoke climbing up from the brown barren waste . |
| 10 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 11 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 12 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 13 | Huge cracks appeared in the social system and a new spirit welled up from the very core of the nation and flowed over everything . |
| 14 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 15 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 16 | Taking a deep breath , Mungo leapt up from the sagging mattress , clutched the sill , and heaved with all his might . |
| 17 | Heg … ? ’ a voice floated up from the open pit . |
| 18 | The nervous voice floated up from the damp gloom below . |
| 19 | With offal mounting up from the four million cattle slaughtered in Britain each year , the developing countries are an obvious target for the rendering companies in desperate need of new markets . |
| 20 | Along the western edge of the valley were tumbling glaciers and high rock ramparts sweeping up from the great moraines and scree slopes to culminate in lofty , snowcapped summits . |
| 21 | Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining . |
| 22 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 24 | This included a scheme for a new 150,000-mile National Highway System made up from the existing inter-state system and other major roads . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 27 | All gullies , whether they take waste water from upstairs fittings ( via a hopper head ) or waste from kitchen sinks , must have traps to prevent smells coming up from the underground drains . |
| 28 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 29 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |