Example sentences of "he [vb past] up from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 2 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 3 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 4 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 6 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 7 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 8 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 9 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 10 | He looked up from the board , realising his concentration had been broken . |
| 11 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 12 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 13 | He looked up from the newspaper and looked coldly at them . |
| 14 | He looked up from the document he was reading and his eyes lingered on her body before he sat back and raised his eyebrows quizzically , waiting for her to speak . |
| 15 | He looked up from the puddle of sepia . |
| 16 | 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 — ’ |
| 17 | He looked up from the menu he was studying and smiled suddenly . |
| 18 | He looked up from the photograph , totally unruffled . |
| 19 | He looked up from the cake at Mama . |
| 20 | He looked up from the list he was making . |
| 21 | Again he looked up from the paper and smiled conciliatingly at his audience . |
| 22 | He looked up from the scroll , thoughtful and faintly frowning : ‘ You know what the Lord Owen writes to me ? ’ |
| 23 | He summoned up from the past the accent he had spent years discarding and bowed to the two men . |
| 24 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 25 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 26 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |
| 27 | He stood up from the flight deck console and crossed over to where Postine lay , successfully sedated , on a buttress . |