Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] up from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 3 | Attacked , promises General Powell , it will be — once its supply lines along the Euphrates valley have been severed and its men and equipment softened up from the air . |
| 4 | Promotional spending rose from 10 per cent to 11 per cent of total sales and spending on research and development went up from £426 million to £461 million . |
| 5 | His tongue hung from his mouth as he made for the south — and dust pothered up from his feet . |
| 6 | As was typical of nineteenth and early twentieth century food retailing , foods were on open display on shop counters , in open windows and on the stalls outside , where food was exposed to the dirt and dust thrown up from the street . |
| 7 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 8 | The court will have regard to the general mercantile structure within which a relationship arises , a structure of relationship and expectation built up from accepted custom and methods of dealing . |
| 9 | Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices . |
| 10 | He tried to sing ‘ God Save the Queen , ’ but blood came up from his chest . |