Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] up from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 2 | Strong winds gusting up from the South . |
| 3 | Ships driven by revolving metal pillars sticking up from the deck sounds like Victorian science fiction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground — they 've obviously been coppiced in the past . |
| 6 | It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye . |
| 7 | Two men crouched against each other , bums stuck out , arms swinging up from the grass to the grip in salmon-like curves . |
| 8 | The sun comes out , and each boy is cartooned by his ironic shadow , and the willows become black hands clutching up from the snow . |
| 9 | She was leaning by the window , watching the first clouds creeping up from the horizon to challenge the sun , when the door opened . |
| 10 | 4 THE MOTHERBOARD : These are usually connected to the PC by a couple of screws and plastic standoffs poking up from the bottom of the case . |