Example sentences of "[vb past] up from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 2 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 3 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 4 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 5 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 6 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 7 | Downstairs there were two rooms , and a short staircase led up from the front door to two attic bedrooms with tiny skylights in the roof . |
| 8 | Huge cracks appeared in the social system and a new spirit welled up from the very core of the nation and flowed over everything . |
| 9 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 10 | Taking a deep breath , Mungo leapt up from the sagging mattress , clutched the sill , and heaved with all his might . |
| 11 | But the cry that went up from the angry crowd , kept at bay by the military , was ‘ Ireland starves , England profits ! ’ |
| 12 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |
| 13 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
| 14 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 15 | Alexandra , sorting tapestry wools , looked up from the muddled skein in her hand . |
| 16 | Mick spoke up from the other tent . |
| 17 | Heg … ? ’ a voice floated up from the open pit . |
| 18 | The nervous voice floated up from the damp gloom below . |
| 19 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |