Example sentences of "[vb base] up from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 2 | And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable . |
| 3 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 4 | My right hand shook as I remembered the sudden fear of seeing the crimson tracer flick up from the ground . |
| 5 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 6 | So I look up from the jigsaw I had for my birthday . |
| 7 | Helplessly I look up from the patient . |
| 8 | Not a word as he put his foot back in the stirrup iron ( only stable boys and jockeys jump up from the ground ) a hand across the saddle-tree , and he was up , quick and certain as a fly landing . |
| 9 | back up from the bay . |
| 10 | Reynard Lennon , who had left a trail of confused , temporarily disabled security droids behind him , waited in the shadow of a large rhododendron hybrid in Acropolis Park and watched the Roirbak rotor dance up from the roof , wheel around and head towards Sector 2p . |
| 11 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 12 | She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make . |
| 13 | Kneeling can also be used to help the patient get up from the floor ; most patients are taught to do this once they can walk , in case they have a fall . |
| 14 | But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow . |
| 15 | Measure up from the hemline and mark the finished length of the curtains , either by tacking across the width of the fabric , or with a row of pins on the right side . |
| 16 | ‘ Wake up from the dream , and return to reality . |
| 17 | Even if she 's afflicted with those dark curly sprouts which creep up from the bikini line , ultimately shrouding the bellybutton in a rich hirsute outcrop , she could n't give a fried calamari . |
| 18 | Lavas become scarcer amongst rocks of more acid compositions and rhyolites are much less abundant than andesites They are highly viscous , never flowing far from their source , and usually merely ooze up from the vent like toothpaste to pile up into short , thick flows and domes . |
| 19 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 20 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 21 | There they drew the sea monsters cast up from the ocean bottom by the sinking of the land into the service of their evil master . |
| 22 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 23 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 24 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 25 | A tavern in Southwark is , many would say , only one step up from the place you were spirited from . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What about the tourists who come up from the village on foot or arrive in their cars to take a look at your goods ? ’ he demanded . |
| 27 | It is difficult even to name them , for I sense that they are urges and longings that spring up from the deep , like streams of water gathering in the darkness below ground before they emerge through the rock into the light of day . |
| 28 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |