Example sentences of "[vb past] up from the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 2 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 3 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 4 | Some are Oxbridge educated former merchant bankers , others came up from the shop floor , but they all have some things in common . |
| 5 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 6 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 7 | Hatch straightened up from the plant box , and surveyed his handiwork for a second before looking at Cowley and saying , ‘ Maiden Lane or Memory Lane ? |
| 8 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 9 | Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers . |
| 10 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 11 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 12 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |
| 13 | She was bending down in her seat , staring into the little mirror that hinged up from the glove-box flap , inspecting her lip-stick . |
| 14 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 15 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 16 | Dot felt herself gathered up from the kitchen floor and Mr Brown 's face came into view , kindly and familiar . |
| 17 | Nick looked up from the backgammon board . |
| 18 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 19 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 20 | Robyn looked up from the kitchen sink and placed a washed plate on to the draining-board . |
| 21 | DeVore looked up from the wei chi board and smiled . |
| 22 | Piper O'Rourke looked up from the shift supervisor 's desk as a dishevelled and embarrassed Alex Bannen walked into the Belial Base Operations Room , followed by his son . |
| 23 | Lucenzo looked up from the coffee machine warily . |
| 24 | Matthew looked up from the picnic basket as though aware of her intent , serious gaze . |
| 25 | But Pauline Woolgrove , chief sterling trader , looked up from the dealing tickets for the several hundred million pound deals her desk had successfully completed during the night . |
| 26 | She looked up from the ID card , then handed it across . |
| 27 | And it alleges that in some cases traffic is being severely disrupted on the busy road after cars have been covered in slime dragged up from the river bed . |
| 28 | He stood up from the flight deck console and crossed over to where Postine lay , successfully sedated , on a buttress . |
| 29 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |
| 30 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |