Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
2 I walked up from the woods with him , came
3 She looked up from the minutes she was collating .
4 She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make .
5 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 .
6 He came up from the ranks .
7 He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce …
8 He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to .
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