Example sentences of "[pron] up from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heaved himself up from the kitchen chair and reached for his coat behind the door . |
| 2 | The meal finished , Stan Carver , placing his hands on each side of his plate , slowly raised himself up from the table and , standing still for a moment , said , ‘ Thank God for a good dinner . ’ |
| 3 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 4 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 5 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 6 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 7 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |
| 8 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 9 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 10 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 11 | Today your American Tours motorcoach will pick you up from the hotel lobby at 8am . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want me to pick you up from the airport ? ’ |
| 13 | Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m . |
| 14 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 15 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 16 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 17 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 18 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 19 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 20 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 21 | I could always phone up my mum and get can you pick me up from the Galleria and take me back to Haileybury please . |
| 22 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 23 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 24 | She put a hand up to touch his lips and gently with the other eased herself up from the sofa . |
| 25 | Laura hauled herself up from the sofa and went to answer it . |
| 26 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |
| 27 | Aggie pulled herself up from the seat , saying , tersely now , ‘ Well , love , she has . ’ |
| 28 | Aggie mumbled something in her throat ; then , hastily pulling herself up from the couch , she said , ‘ Well , now we all know where we stand , so let's eat . |
| 29 | Aggie pulled herself up from the chair . |
| 30 | Julia nodded and pulled herself up from the sofa . |