Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 2 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 3 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 4 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 5 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 6 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 7 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 8 | Okay , we can now define a further notion called C command the phrase X C commands a phrase Y , if and only if A neither of X nor Y dominates the other so neither is directly above the other and in the path and B , the first branching node is dominating X , also dominates Y so let's find out if X and C commands to Y , you go up the tree from X and you find the branching node , the first branching node dominating X and see if that node also dominates Y. Okay . |
| 9 | Florence C commands both saw and herself because if you go up the tree from Florence you find the first branching node , that 's the S node and that dominates both saw and herself . |
| 10 | Okay and saw C commands herself because if you go up the tree from saw to the first branching node , you 'll find that branching node also dominates herself . |
| 11 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 12 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 13 | They drove up the ramp from the underground car park at Scotland Yard and out on to Victoria Street at 8.40 p.m . |
| 14 | In April that year she married William Arbuthnot and during their honeymoon they walked up the Schilthorn from Murren , accompanied by a guide . |
| 15 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 16 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 17 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 18 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 19 | Place a greaseband round the trunk of apple trees to catch the wingless female winter moth as it crawls up the tree from the soil in an attempt to lay its eggs . |
| 20 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 21 | He picked up the poker from the fireplace and jumped up . |
| 22 | He picked up the textbook from the grass . |