Example sentences of "up out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes .
2 Purely on a psychological level , it may be that a culture such as ours that has grown up out of a Judaic-Christian background finds cremation difficult to accept .
3 Firstly , a couple of birds were scared up out of a nearby bush by his call ; and secondly , there was a detonation so loud that he almost felt it as a physical shockwave .
4 But then … it was like waking up out of a bad dream .
5 As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He just showed up out of the blue one day while Nathan was working .
11 Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems .
12 You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything , just like that .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club .
17 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 …
18 Fountains how could you convey the sense of waters , swirl , surging up out of the deep or something .
19 The lead climber , Sedlmayer , caught sight of a possible bivouac ledge , and simultaneously a man 's face , looming up out of the icy fog .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 ’ 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 .
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