Example sentences of "up from [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 2 | Run the pipes under the loft floor insulation ( or , rather , lay the insulation over the pipes ) so that they can benefit from the heat rising up from the ceiling below . |
| 3 | Loud blasts echoed up from the valley below . |
| 4 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 5 | ‘ Cedric rang up from The Randolph just before he came home . |
| 6 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 7 | From London , they did the poles up from the Lyness up to the hill . |
| 8 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 9 | Total shipments were 40% up from the year earlier at around 110,000 units . |
| 10 | The Royal Institution had just moved its laboratories up from the basement where they were no longer valuable in ‘ our struggle for existence ’ , as William Spottiswoode put it in January 1873 . |
| 11 | More usually , however , each wave shows an elliptical strip of the sky , light , from the horizon , with a dark reflection in its middle ; the whole surrounded by the less dark but increasingly rich colour made up from the sky above added to the colour of the water itself . |
| 12 | However , the controls over local management in this respect were tightened up from the mid-1950s onwards . |
| 13 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 14 | Phil got up from the bed abruptly and turned away with an awkward gesture — his usual response when he felt insulted . |
| 15 | The Nubian looked up from the couch where she half lay by a low table on which a number of limestone flakes were scattered . |
| 16 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | Another is the sawfly , which lays its eggs always along the midrib of the leaf , and with them a hormone that causes the leaves to roll up from the edges in to enclose and protect the emerging larvae in a neat tubular hideaway . |
| 18 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 19 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 20 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 21 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 22 | A Lancaster man resting nearby noticed a patch of grass waving agitatedly although the day was calm , and on investigation was aware of a strong draught of air coming up from the ground below . |
| 23 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 24 | When , or if , the four leagues of ten were in place , one club would be automatically relegated from the Premier Division , with one coming up from the league beneath . |
| 25 | Caroline looked up from the paper again . |
| 26 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 27 | Willie got up from the table excitedly and moved towards them . |
| 28 | For he just pushed his plate aside , wiped his mouth on the back of his hand , and getting up from the table once again went out of the house without saying a word . |
| 29 | ‘ You have come up from the coast then ? |