Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rushed in , caught up the babies from student nurse Bridget 's and Kitty 's arms and handed them to young male nurses . |
| 2 | On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly . |
| 3 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 4 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 5 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 6 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 7 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 8 | The landlord filled up the tankard from a keg below the bar . |
| 9 | They drove up the ramp from the underground car park at Scotland Yard and out on to Victoria Street at 8.40 p.m . |
| 10 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
| 11 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
| 12 | At the request of the inhabitants , he also opened up a well from which they draw water to this day , and his name is still commemorated in the village . |
| 13 | Not only was the demand not to materialize but the revolution in distribution costs introduced by containerization , changes in marine technology and handling methods at docks opened up the world from what had been a series of regional markets to a single one . |
| 14 | Alida hauled up the eiderdown from the floor , threw it over the width of the bed , And I , she thought bitterly , I am not young , not a girl , to bend and stoop and struggle with making and tidying this great bed . |
| 15 | ‘ I presume , ’ chirped up a voice from the back Coun Eric White , actually ‘ that you 're telling us all this from memory . ’ |
| 16 | Dot spooned up the bottom from where it was cool and milky . |
| 17 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 18 | In April that year she married William Arbuthnot and during their honeymoon they walked up the Schilthorn from Murren , accompanied by a guide . |
| 19 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 20 | By contrast her bowl curled in a perfect arc from the left and finished up a foot from the target , keeling over on to its side . |
| 21 | ‘ We fished up a collar from the Broad ? ’ |
| 22 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 23 | Aggie gathered up the letters from the table , returned them to the writing case , then rose heavily , saying , ‘ Time enough to think about that . |
| 24 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 25 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 26 | Rachel rose from the bed and took up the tray from the bed-side table . |
| 27 | Miki and Chris took up the challenge from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus to drink the bile ! |
| 28 | FATHER Peter Wright and I — along with a number of other youth workers from this and other diocese — took up an invitation from Father Patrick Cope , chaplain to Deerbolt Young Offenders Institute , in Co . |
| 29 | He took up an idea from a previous inventor , an Englishman named Charles Babbage , namely the punched card , but designed an electro-mechanical device called a tabulator to ‘ read ’ the information contained on the card . |
| 30 | they blew up a plane from Iran |