Example sentences of "up from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No dugouts , though ; only the water hyacinths travelling up from the south , and floating away to the west , clump after clump , with the thick-stalked lilac flowers like masts . |
| 2 | Strong winds gusting up from the South . |
| 3 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 4 | Thin blue smoke poured straight up from the freshly mortared chimney of the McCullochs ' house in Weem . |
| 5 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 6 | A rising sound between a crow and a cheer came up from the men . |
| 7 | After dark , drunken shouts , merry and angry , echoed up from the street . |
| 8 | Nick looked up from the backgammon board . |
| 9 | He shoved the half-empty plate away and jumped up from the table . |
| 10 | I saw people springing up from the ground and letting down ropes out of the sky , boarding red buses , jabbering in English . |
| 11 | — Not again , replied Duncan irritably , looking up from the News . |
| 12 | Looking up from the village — you can park next to the graveyard ! |
| 13 | Despite the crushing of the students , he still hoped that ‘ a phoenix will rise up from the ashes . ’ |
| 14 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Tomorrow I shall wake up from the dream . ’ |
| 17 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 18 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |
| 19 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 20 | I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps . |
| 21 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 22 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 23 | A short zip is a compromise but most bags now come with a full length zip , generally with a double puller which enables you to open it up from the top or bottom to allow air to ventilate in warmer weather . |
| 24 | And when , as often happened , the screen began to yellow and darken , the cry would go up from the front rows : ‘ Purra nother bob in Len ! ’ |
| 25 | We 'd shout up from the street to him . |
| 26 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 27 | ‘ They must have gone out , ’ Maggie looked up from the dough with intense attention . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 30 | She looks pretty shook up from the letter . |