Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dot felt herself gathered up from the kitchen floor and Mr Brown 's face came into view , kindly and familiar . |
| 32 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 33 | Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke as it welled up from the eaves and spread across the roof in a fine blue film. , Kāli came out into the doorway with a plate of puris and a small bowl of oil . |
| 34 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 35 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 36 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 37 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 38 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 39 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 40 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 41 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 42 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 43 | He looked up from the board , realising his concentration had been broken . |
| 44 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 45 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 46 | He looked up from the newspaper and looked coldly at them . |
| 47 | He looked up from the document he was reading and his eyes lingered on her body before he sat back and raised his eyebrows quizzically , waiting for her to speak . |
| 48 | He looked up from the puddle of sepia . |
| 49 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 50 | He looked up from the menu he was studying and smiled suddenly . |
| 51 | He looked up from the photograph , totally unruffled . |
| 52 | He looked up from the cake at Mama . |
| 53 | He looked up from the list he was making . |
| 54 | Again he looked up from the paper and smiled conciliatingly at his audience . |
| 55 | He looked up from the scroll , thoughtful and faintly frowning : ‘ You know what the Lord Owen writes to me ? ’ |
| 56 | He summoned up from the past the accent he had spent years discarding and bowed to the two men . |
| 57 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 58 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 59 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 60 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |