Example sentences of "[vb past] up from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 2 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 3 | They built up from a working |
| 4 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 5 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 6 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 7 | Peter woke up from a violent dream that was to change everything . |
| 8 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 9 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 10 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 11 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 12 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 13 | Downstairs there were two rooms , and a short staircase led up from the front door to two attic bedrooms with tiny skylights in the roof . |
| 14 | Huge cracks appeared in the social system and a new spirit welled up from the very core of the nation and flowed over everything . |
| 15 | They brought tears to her eyes , but tears of pain soon welled up from an overwhelming sense of despair . |
| 16 | In 1963 Takayanagi proposed models for polymers containing separate phases and carried out experimental studies on composites made up from a hard polymer and a soft rubber . |
| 17 | This included a scheme for a new 150,000-mile National Highway System made up from the existing inter-state system and other major roads . |
| 18 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 19 | Clear fresh water bubbled up from a pebble-filled pool , overhung by rocks . |
| 20 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 21 | Taking a deep breath , Mungo leapt up from the sagging mattress , clutched the sill , and heaved with all his might . |
| 22 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 23 | Howls of laughter went up from the other boys . |
| 24 | A huge cheer — somewhere between a wolf-whistle and a blown kiss — went up from the Tory backbenches . |
| 25 | But the cry that went up from the angry crowd , kept at bay by the military , was ‘ Ireland starves , England profits ! ’ |
| 26 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 27 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |
| 28 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
| 29 | Rose looked up from a Naseby-dominated desk as Mr Multhrop speedily opened the door and almost pushed the sergeant in . |
| 30 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |