Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 2 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 3 | In fact , Johnny 's not picking me up from school again tonight . |
| 4 | And dangerous for the goat : a myotonic goat picking himself up from his umpteenth collapse of the day might wonder why natural selection had not taken its course long ago and dispensed with his unhappy breed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not only had he managed to manipulate her into going with him to Conway House but also into picking him up from his home and taking him there as well ! |
| 7 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 8 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 9 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
| 10 | Instead she lifted her hair with both hands , smoothing it up from the nape of her neck and piling it on top of her head in a soft copper mound . |
| 11 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 14 | You could move these to locations 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 , for conveniently calling them up from a MIDI pedal . |
| 15 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 16 | Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached . |
| 17 | Crossing over to the tree , she began to climb up , drawing herself up from branch to branch wherever she could find foothold or handhold . |
| 18 | A good caddie also has to be something of a psychologist , knowing when to cajole his player into making a better effort ; calming him down when he 's just three-putted or blazed a drive into the rough ; or steadying him up from being over-confident or over-zealous when the adrenalin is flowing after a couple of good holes . |
| 19 | And Richard took it upon himself to make his friend more sociable , bringing him up from the country for dinners and parties , to Oldfield 's obvious disinterest . |
| 20 | Then Bering got into top gear and swept past the Aga Khan 's runners , taking it up from Shahrastani inside the final furlong . |
| 21 | To fill in the travelling time chant leaders are actively engaged in trying out new versions of old chants or making them up from scratch . |
| 22 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |