Example sentences of "up from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweeping up from the adventurers ' blind side ( either a ridge line above their heads or out of the mist ) comes a ragged flock of Carrion , one of these undead birds for every two adventurers ( but at least three in any event ) . |
| 2 | The Doctor looked up from the screens that everyone in the chamber had been silently watching . |
| 3 | Father Paddy moved up from the altar-steps to kiss the altar-stone , then turned to the congregation . |
| 4 | None are so ruthlessly exclusive as those who have worked their way up from the ranks . |
| 5 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 6 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 7 | confirmed that what was envisaged was , as identified but not without some reservations , a restructuring of the profession with future practitioners gaining their experience among and coming up from the ranks of the newly created cadre of internal auditors . |
| 8 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |
| 9 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 11 | I walked up from the woods with him , came |
| 12 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 13 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 14 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 15 | At times , a faint remembrance of the scent her mother used to wear drifted up from the folds of the clothing . |
| 16 | All I recollect is a grey , sombre sky and the dark Seine rushing under the bridges ; tall , sharp-gabled houses which sprang up from the cobbles and leaned crazily together , storey thrust out above storey ; the narrow , winding streets of the Latin Quarter ; the pell-mell of ascending gables and tinted roof tiles , the gables of their lower storeys sculpted into fantastic shapes of warriors or exotic animals . |
| 17 | Had the peak risen up from the waters and punctured the keel , thereby skewering the vessel in place ? |
| 18 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 19 | The daughters of small farmers were best esteemed , but they were declining and the supply was made up from the cottages of artisans , shopkeepers and labourers . |
| 20 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 21 | The night was clear , and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests . |
| 22 | In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . |
| 23 | Recovery occurs when the affected intestinal epithelial cells on the villi are replaced by new enterocytes moving up from the crypts . |
| 24 | The student looked begrudgingly up from the instruments and out toward the wingtips . |
| 25 | ‘ Staff Nurse , ’ she said without looking up from the notes she was writing . |
| 26 | Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) . |
| 27 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 28 | Now , with the same director , part of the original company , and an influx of the new wave of circus talent that has surged up from the streets something magical has happened . |
| 29 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 30 | However , the controls over local management in this respect were tightened up from the mid-1950s onwards . |