Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 2 | Well , the market will probably be up a year from now , and if he holds shares in all the ex-state companies ( 36 , less two taken over ) his risks are tolerably spread , with worthy water companies balancing clouded bits of aerospace . |
| 3 | ‘ This is a very painful move for us , but we do n't want to wake up a year from now and wish we had n't done it , ’ Next founder Steve Jobs told United Press International . |
| 4 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 5 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 6 | ‘ I presume , ’ chirped up a voice from the back Coun Eric White , actually ‘ that you 're telling us all this from memory . ’ |
| 7 | When Estella finally came , with her candle , along the dark passage , Miss Havisham picked up a jewel from her table and put it in Estella 's hair . |
| 8 | He picked up a knife from the table . |
| 9 | I said , can I have the sugar and he picked up a knife from the table-top and pretended to carve his heart out , put it in the sugar bowl and presented it to me . |
| 10 | Mr Hughes said Sweeney picked up a knife from a table and stabbed the restaurant 's owner with it in the back of the hand . |
| 11 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm just popping into town to pick up a parcel from the station . |
| 13 | She picked up a brush from the dressing-table and began sweeping it through her thick , luxuriant hair . |
| 14 | He switches on the interior light and picks up a bundle from the passenger seat . |
| 15 | The saw will cut off the tongue of one board so that you can use a wide wood chisel , or a bolster chisel , to lever up a board from the side . |
| 16 | Would ex-health minister Kenneth Clarke take up a freebie from ‘ Tummies & Tone-Ups ’ ? |
| 17 | By contrast her bowl curled in a perfect arc from the left and finished up a foot from the target , keeling over on to its side . |
| 18 | Lee picked up a stick from by the broken wire fence and poked the feathers of one of the dead hens , then the bloody bit by the neck . |
| 19 | Someone picks up a bill from the floor , opens it . |
| 20 | Wearing plastic gloves , he was picking up a pipe from a glass bowl to slip it inside a transparent bag . |
| 21 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 22 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 23 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 24 | So , pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone . |
| 25 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 26 | ‘ We fished up a collar from the Broad ? ’ |
| 27 | There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters . |
| 28 | Products available include : Select Portfolio , an efficient way to build up a portfolio from a choice of more than 40 offshore funds covering equity , bond , cash , managed and regionally specialist ; Capital Choice , a single premium bond ; Flexi Saver , a tax efficient savings plan ; Maxi Saver , particularly suitable for British expatriates ; Professional Portfolio , an individual portfolio ; Wealth Protector , which combines a discretionary trust with a choice of investment plans ; Keyholder , a scheme designed to ease international property purchase ; and Pension Plus , a flexible retirement plan that has important potential tax advantages for the returning UK expatriate . |
| 29 | Maxim put the camera down picked up a poker from the hearth and started for the stairway . |
| 30 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |