Example sentences of "[vb pp] up from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's alright cos someone 's rung up from home , say be in eight o'clock , so she wants to do something . |
| 2 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 3 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 4 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 5 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 6 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 7 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |
| 8 | How has he shown that this man , who 's come up from poverty , understands poverty and is prepared to do something about it . |
| 9 | I learned that the rivers of the area are frozen up from January to April when the temperature sinks to minus 10°F , although the summer temperature while we were in Irkutsk was a ‘ sweltering ’ 65°F ! |
| 10 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 11 | You will be picked up from school by Marjorie or me or your mother or all three of us from now on. , |
| 12 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 13 | Therefore they can not be picked up from water supplied , swimming pools , buildings or factories . |
| 14 | Just picked up from teletext … |
| 15 | First you will be picked up from home in a luxury stretch limo courtesy of Elegance Limousines of Waterloo . |
| 16 | She , even though virgin , had imaginative ideas about what they should do , mainly picked up from conversations she 'd had with Justinette and Elice . |
| 17 | She began to ask questions , about the other two women , the Refuge , even some of the mysterious topics she had picked up from meal times . |
| 18 | It was Amy 's sixteenth birthday and ten girls had to be picked up from town , lunched , let loose on Hampstead , given dinner , board and breakfast the following morning . |
| 19 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 20 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 21 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 22 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 23 | The discount rate used to appraise projects in the non-trading part of the public sector will be nudged up from 5% to 6% . |
| 24 | Dividends are nudged up from 13.7p to 14.3p , with the final of 9.62p payable on June 1 . |
| 25 | It is pumped up from brine wells . |
| 26 | If you are running your own company which you own and have built up from scratch you have a different approach to somebody like myself who 's a professional manager . |
| 27 | The sample will be built up from students in Further Education colleges in six locations in Britain . |
| 28 | George White of Irvine , California-based Corollary says ‘ the Symmetry 2000 machines are not PC-like enough to integrate NT simply , unlike the others which have been built up from PC architecture . ’ |
| 29 | The annual revenue generated by this apparatus over the years preceding the war had built up from $482 million in 1964 to $1,109 million in 1970 . |
| 30 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |