Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Anabelle could learn more , however , they heard a splash in the canal and turned to see a little brown head bobbing up out of the water . |
| 2 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 3 | Eachuinn Odhar strode splashing up out of the water to meet Lady Marion . |
| 4 | It must have been a shock , her turning up out of the blue like that . |
| 5 | Beyond it was another raft with , even as he watched , a dark shape rearing up out of the sea alongside . |
| 6 | The energy you 're pulling up out of the earth , out of the river , out of the air . ’ |
| 7 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 8 | So the not-every-day sight of a coffin sticking up out of the hatch-back of a Metro was duly recorded . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's shot Caspar , ’ he said getting up out of the bracken . |
| 10 | She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time . |
| 11 | He spoke suddenly , the question rising up out of the confusion and indignation in his mind . |
| 12 | They heaved like a single body rising up out of the earth , still covered in clinging soil ; their arms round one anothers ’ shoulders , their hair matted to a uniform colour by sweat and filth , their clothes the same moth-eaten , slept-in brown , dangling straw from their beds . |
| 13 | He watched the Pfalz D VIIs coming up out of the east , with all the loathing and resignation of a slum-dweller who sea yet another street-brawl lurching his way . |
| 14 | The memory was sour-sweet , bubbling up out of the dream-past with this chance remark , as fresh and real as if it were happening now . |
| 15 | The driver of one wagon , carrying food and costumes , was alarmed by the dense dark shape of a monastic building welling up out of the horizon : he jerked his reins . |
| 16 | There were two black lines of metal there , two rails slanting up out of the hangar and disappearing in the darkness |
| 17 | No wonder ‘ Wallaby Walker ’ was hopping up out of the dug-out onto the pitch again . |