Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 2 | I got up from the table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I walked up from the road , " I said . |
| 5 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 6 | Seeing that her employer 's eyes were once again drooping heavily , she got up from the bed . |
| 7 | She got up from the bed and started packing , throwing things haphazardly into her bag . |
| 8 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |
| 9 | As he came in , she got up from the couch and came across , embracing him , her eyes bright with excitement . |
| 10 | She got up from the table and poured herself out a glass of water , and then sat down again . |
| 11 | She got up from the table and walked into the conservatory with a bowl of fruit for her macaws . |
| 12 | She got up from the table , the food hardly touched on her plate . |
| 13 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 14 | She sprang up from the bed with that quick restless grace which had always delighted him , and pulled on her green dress . |
| 15 | She stared up from the ground , her wings hanging loose as if she no longer had strength to hold them to her body , her left wing seeming bent as if it had once been broken . |
| 16 | She looked up from the ID card , then handed it across . |
| 17 | She looked up from the tray she was laying — silver teapot and best china and thin bread and butter — and said , ‘ What 's up with you , Miss Down-In-The-Mouth ? |
| 18 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 19 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 20 | We got up from the seat and strolled along the terrace . |
| 21 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 22 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 23 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 24 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 27 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 28 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He looked up from the board , realising his concentration had been broken . |