Example sentences of "up from [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Ships driven by revolving metal pillars sticking up from the deck sounds like Victorian science fiction .
2 Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack .
3 Father Paddy moved up from the altar-steps to kiss the altar-stone , then turned to the congregation .
4 Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn .
5 I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase .
6 A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank .
7 Up from the river came the moist , dirty smell of its swollen waters .
8 Up from the river chugs a little blue train .
9 Software and services generated 44% of the total turnover in the domestic market , up from the 36% generated in 1991 .
10 She was leaning by the window , watching the first clouds creeping up from the horizon to challenge the sun , when the door opened .
11 Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down .
12 A principal character in Neville Shute 's epic tale A Town Like Alice somewhere remarks , apropos the outback , that artists cam up from the south to try and paint it .
13 Just then Lily shouted up from the basement to complain that the kitchen range was smoking again .
14 Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion .
15 Trent looked up from the map to find Mariana watching him .
16 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
17 Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers .
18 Make several small slits about 2.5cm/1in up from the base to allow excess water to drain away .
19 As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony .
20 Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys .
21 Cold water cisterns themselves should also be lagged ( see page 44 ) : put insulation on the top of the cistern but not underneath , so that some heat comes up from the house to keep the chill off the cistern .
22 The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall .
23 The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch .
24 The cheeks of her rounded arse curved up from the bench to culminate in her wide-open thighs , and the wooden hedgehog perched amongst the foliage of her lush bush .
25 A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified .
26 The ne'er-do-wells and the many sightseers mixed with the army of law clerks carrying rolls of parchment up from the cellar known as Hell where , Sir John explained , the legal records were kept .
27 It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe .
28 I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it .
29 But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow .
30 She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching .
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