Example sentences of "up from the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea . |
| 2 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 3 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 4 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 5 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 6 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , the mechanism inside the cylinder allows the ‘ primary ’ circuit to be filled up from the cold water supply to the hot water cylinder When it is full , a large air bubble prevents the two mixing — provided the water in the boiler circuit is never allowed to boil . |
| 9 | We built the festival up from the old village concerts , which are still always packed out ’ . |
| 10 | Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining . |
| 11 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |