Example sentences of "[v-ing] up from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 2 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 3 | The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall . |
| 4 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 5 | Somehow she 'd imagined Penry leaping up from the sofa at the sight of her , angry at her intrusion . |
| 6 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 7 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 8 | His voice is high-pitched and breathless , floating in the back of the mouth , instead of pushing up from the throat and chest . |
| 9 | People like Sherman ( 1985 ) now argue that there are three separate streams or channels of information passing up from the retina and through the visual cortex . |
| 10 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 11 | Looking up from the mirror , he winked at Trent , saliva dribbling . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Benedict ! ’ uttered Agnes Diggory , looking up from the pastry she was rolling . |
| 13 | Looking up from the village — you can park next to the graveyard ! |
| 14 | ‘ Put that gum in the bin , ’ says Sir , without looking up from the register . |
| 15 | Somebody singing … but the small Ruth , looking up from the rug , did n't like it ; the clear trickling notes were like a shiver down her back , like raindrops sliding down a windowpane . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see why , ’ Whitlock replied without looking up from the grill . |
| 17 | — Not again , replied Duncan irritably , looking up from the News . |
| 18 | Looking up from the paper , I saw Sheikha Grandmother moving slowly toward us , on Selma 's arm . |
| 19 | ‘ Lake , Brian , Andy , ’ he explained , scarcely looking up from the screen . |
| 20 | Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others . |
| 21 | Lay blind out flat with lining uppermost , and mark the position of the lath channel by measuring up from the hemline to a distance equal to the depth of the bottom pelmet . |
| 22 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 23 | Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground — they 've obviously been coppiced in the past . |
| 24 | He shrugged , backing the car out of the parking space to turn it deftly up the narrow unpaved path leading up from the river . |
| 25 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 26 | Ships driven by revolving metal pillars sticking up from the deck sounds like Victorian science fiction . |
| 27 | As in some wheats , triticale has long tufts ( awns ) sticking up from the seed spikes . |
| 28 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 29 | Building up from the surface of a board or canvas adds further dimension and vigour . |
| 30 | The newest models at Yorvik are based on a computer reconstruction , which can take a skull and remodel the flesh on the human face ; building up from the skeleton is the nearest we can get to what individual Vikings actually looked like . |