Example sentences of "[vb pp] up from [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 2 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 3 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 4 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 5 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 6 | The water for washing had to be Pumped up from a well in the scullery every morning for half an hour before breakfast and the drinking water fetched daily in a bucket from a communal tap in the tiny village street . |
| 7 | Our everyday image is built up from a mass of little details — dress , social manners , tone of voice , and so on . |
| 8 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 9 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 10 | Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary . |
| 11 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 12 | The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship . |
| 13 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 14 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 15 | Mrs Brooks , forty-three , has moved up from the role of president of US operations to overall president and chief executive officer of the company , a newly created post . |
| 16 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I felt that if the implant could be made up from a range of different sized components , surgeons would be able to produce a much better fit . ’ |
| 18 | A body within a spatial domain is made up from a combination of edge and surface descriptions . |
| 19 | The remaining two thirds may be made up from a combination of full or half courses in many subject areas , for example chemistry , physics , maths , oceanography , geophysics , geographical sciences , meteorology , archaeology , astronomy , computer sciences , psychology , science studies , economics , arts subjects , languages , law , etc . |
| 20 | ( As long as the heaving green adumbrates the land , as long as time has refused to be some time but always now , as long as the humungus titles have zipped up from the seam between sea and sky , as long … ) |
| 21 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 22 | Freehand , closed freehand , arc , pie wedge , open polygon , and open bezier tools can be called up from a pull down menu or you can add them to your own customised toolbox so that the most frequently tools are always close at hand . |
| 23 | Oh driven up from the station from the , from the goods yard oh yes . |
| 24 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 25 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 26 | That 'll be , we , we sort of weighed up from the length of what we had to show |
| 27 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 28 | Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire . |
| 29 | True enough , but to be incorporated into the protein the radioactive amino acid has first to be taken up from the bloodstream into the neurons . |
| 30 | ‘ It was bucketing rain , and in the rain the leeches had climbed up from the water into the trees as well . |