Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't you forgetting Ranji ? ’ piped up an elderly voice from the very end of the table . |
| 3 | The badminton men 's singles threw up a new champion from a new store this year — Andy Peacock from Apsley Mills — who took the title from the holder , Phil shaw of Charlton depot , in two convincing sets . |
| 4 | He pulled up the wooden chair from beside the bed and sat down . |
| 5 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 6 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 7 | Tossing her safari jacket aside with a regretful air , she shrugged on the purloined lab coat , picked up a dusty clipboard from the shelf , and stepped back out into the corridor . |
| 8 | The old woman dropped the Access card into her pinafore pocket and picked up a framed photograph from a small table near the window . |
| 9 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 10 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 11 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 12 | As she talked , Annabel picked up a little box from the bedside table ; it was an antique ebony snuffbox , the lid inlaid with a geometric pattern of tortoiseshell and ivory . |
| 13 | She picked up a little bag from the table . |
| 14 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 15 | Now she held one finger to her lips , picked up a portable radio from the kneehole beneath her desk and switched it on . |
| 16 | Thundering towards the centre of the field , giving two South Sussex players the slip , Perdita picked up a beautiful pass from Mike , skedaddled easily round Paul Hedley , hit two glorious offside forehands towards goal , before cutting the ball perfectly through the buttercup-yellow goal posts . |
| 17 | She picked up an emptied canister from the kitchen floor . |