Example sentences of "[vb past] up from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An odour of dank river air swam up from the river . |
| 2 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 3 | Darkness seeped up from the earth . |
| 4 | On my right , across the river , steep forested banks rose up from the water . |
| 5 | Another time , a photographer had ventured onto the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner . |
| 6 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 7 | As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie ! |
| 8 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 9 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 10 | Father Paddy moved up from the altar-steps to kiss the altar-stone , then turned to the congregation . |
| 11 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 12 | Just then Lily shouted up from the basement to complain that the kitchen range was smoking again . |
| 13 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 14 | Beyond her kitchen window , crocuses sprouted up from the grass , bright as doubloons , orange and heliotrope . |
| 15 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 16 | Just then , a tanker drove up from the south and the driver confirmed my suspicions . |
| 17 | A smell of bacon and eggs wafted up from the kitchen . |
| 18 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 19 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 20 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 21 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 22 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 23 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 24 | I saw you and Oliver in the café when we all came up from the beach . |
| 25 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 26 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 27 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 28 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 29 | Louis came up from the saloon . |
| 30 | A rising sound between a crow and a cheer came up from the men . |