Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came up from London . |
| 2 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 3 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 4 | A final dividend of 10.7p leaves an unchanged total of 16.0p for the year , payable from earnings per share which picked up from 14.3p to 16.2p . |
| 5 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 6 | SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Pop Staples belongs to that great generation of bluesmen who moved up from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s . |
| 7 | Sailing to form , at last , was Gyngell who held onto 3rd place despite a challenge from Fenwick who came up from right behind Goodchild on the first lap . |
| 8 | ‘ This point was well demonstrated by Professor Bill Rathje , who dug up from landfills in Arizona , USA , newspapers 30 years old on which the headlines could easily be read , ’ comments Dent . |
| 9 | Her knowledge of Samoa was based upon what a group of adolescent girls thr told her , through an interpreter , and what can only be called , er , chit-chat and gossip that she picked up from missionaries ' wives and people like this . |
| 10 | We came up from York Street today , you know we walked |
| 11 | We rang up from Victoria station and arranged to meet Jenny 's contact the following afternoon . |
| 12 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 13 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're the man they sent up from Rome ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | But between bouts , in a precarious euphoria that to others seemed like dourness , he drove up from Hilderbridge in Whalbys ' van . |
| 16 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 17 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 18 | With reluctance he looked up from papers he was studying . |
| 19 | There was a light in his eye when he looked up from reading . |
| 20 | Chakrabarty is concentrating first on organisms he scraped up from Love Canal and other American dumpsites . |
| 21 | He 'd often hear a mention of hostages on the early news he picked up from Radio Monte Carlo or VOA that might not be repeated later in the day . |