Example sentences of "[verb] up from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 2 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 8 | Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 12 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 13 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 14 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 19 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 22 | Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 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 | Huge cracks appeared in the social system and a new spirit welled up from the very core of the nation and flowed over everything . |
| 27 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 30 | 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 . |