Example sentences of "up out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 2 | Rory got up out of the creaking wooden seat and walked unsteadily over to where Fergus lay on the bare wooden floorboards , head against the ancient , burst couch . |
| 3 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 4 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 5 | He just showed up out of the blue one day while Nathan was working . |
| 6 | Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems . |
| 7 | You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything , just like that . |
| 8 | Precious moments of light relief came when a couple of friends would turn up out of the blue and say , ‘ Come to the Indian Restaurant ’ . |
| 9 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 10 | There was a mangle in one room rearing up out of the cardboard boxes like a stag , the chaos ( or the wolves ) had not yet pulled down . |
| 11 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 12 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 13 | Fountains how could you convey the sense of waters , swirl , surging up out of the deep or something . |
| 14 | The lead climber , Sedlmayer , caught sight of a possible bivouac ledge , and simultaneously a man 's face , looming up out of the icy fog . |
| 15 | As the snow even in the yard was more than boot-deep , they were thankful that their skirts and petticoats were pinned well up out of the wet snow . |
| 16 | But as the shaking continued she came up out of the bad dream , trembling and drenched once more with perspiration , her cheeks damp with tears . |
| 17 | As we threw things in the car , thick purple cloud was boiling up out of the hidden cauldron of the Sélé glacier and over the Ailefroide Occidentale . |
| 18 | ’ And so he did , puffing up out of the silvered , twilit bowl of Aurae Phiala , ominous at dusk under a low ceiling of dun cloud severed from the earth by a rim of lurid gold . |