Example sentences of "he [vb past] up from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 2 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 4 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 5 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 6 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 7 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 8 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 9 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 12 | Again he looked up from the paper and smiled conciliatingly at his audience . |
| 13 | He looked up from the photograph , totally unruffled . |
| 14 | He looked up from the document he was reading and his eyes lingered on her body before he sat back and raised his eyebrows quizzically , waiting for her to speak . |
| 15 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 16 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 17 | He looked up from the puddle of sepia . |
| 18 | He looked up from the cake at Mama . |
| 19 | He looked up from the board , realising his concentration had been broken . |
| 20 | He looked up from the list he was making . |
| 21 | He looked up from the newspaper and looked coldly at them . |
| 22 | He looked up from the menu he was studying and smiled suddenly . |
| 23 | He looked up from the scroll , thoughtful and faintly frowning : ‘ You know what the Lord Owen writes to me ? ’ |
| 24 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 25 | He summoned up from the past the accent he had spent years discarding and bowed to the two men . |
| 26 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 27 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 28 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |
| 29 | He stood up from the flight deck console and crossed over to where Postine lay , successfully sedated , on a buttress . |