Example sentences of "up [noun pl] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 2 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |
| 3 | And as a special treat we have lined up jokes from the last people you would expect to give you a laugh , ranging from the dreaded tax inspector to an undertaker ! |
| 4 | INTEGRAL will follow up observations from the Russian GRANAT mission ( which uses the French gamma-ray telescope SIGMA ) launched in 1989 and now coming to the end of its mission , and the US Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was launched by the space shuttle in April 1991 . |
| 5 | News stories overlapped : morning paper headlines took account of the previous evening 's radio and TV stories , and the electronic media picked up items from the daily press ( all these developments , indeed , applied to radio as well as to TV ) . |
| 6 | But because his insurance brokers could not match up details from the other driver with her insurance company 's records , Michael lost his no-claims bonus . |
| 7 | So if you 're picking up children from the Primary School in Lane Derby , there 's cable-laying going on in Street , Lane and Street . |
| 8 | ‘ I looked up reports from the Continental police as requested , sir . ’ |