Example sentences of "up from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 2 | The Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) is already planning to revise its 1991 figures for inorganic production , for example , by 11 per cent — up from a fall of 11 per cent . |
| 3 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 4 | He was propositioned twice by ragged and wretched young women in the alleyways and a drunk rising up from a pile of papers frightened him into shouting aloud . |
| 5 | Maxted looked up from a pile of papers he was struggling to sort out . |
| 6 | She keeps circling between past and present , memory and oblivion , like someone trying to wake up from a nightmare . |
| 7 | That 's right , most people with epilepsy they 're much better if they go to sleep and you do n't wake them up , if you wake the person up from a sleep that 's just had an epileptic fit they 'll be vomiting , but if you let them sleep through it then erm , then they 're usually fine . |
| 8 | But the owners had to throw them out because they were faced with a huge increase in insurance premiums , up from a $1000 to almost $5000 . |
| 9 | When the leading lady 's on stage , you do n't notice the rest of the cast , Sabine thought wryly , the wording of madame 's introduction not lost on her , as a young woman got up from a sofa in another part of the room , and came forward with open reluctance . |
| 10 | The pilot , who was later court martialled , was unable to pull up from a dive and ploughed into the ground . |
| 11 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 12 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 13 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 14 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 15 | Australian consumer prices climbed by 1.2% in the year to the first quarter , up from a rise of just 0.3% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 16 | More generally , water will show up from a distance by catching and reflecting light from the sky . |
| 17 | These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ . |
| 18 | The chimneys , hung with white soot , jerk up from a Moscow of onion-domed attics . |
| 19 | Courses at polytechnics are often multi-disciplinary , made up from a variety of individual ‘ modules ’ , and often have a vocational or technical emphasis . |
| 20 | It 's not just because this illness is self- , it 's self-inflicted er , cause , er , you 've obviously picked this up from a variety of other er , I 'd say , sources , but you also pick it up in you know , blood transfusions situation . |
| 21 | So , the Excavator 's house of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop ; and the old -established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House , with a roast leg of pork daily , through interested motives of a similar immediate and popular description . |
| 22 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 23 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt that if the implant could be made up from a range of different sized components , surgeons would be able to produce a much better fit . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Everybody knows Harlowe Place , ’ Lovelace comments dismissively , ‘ for , like Versailles , it is sprung up from a dunghill , within every elderly person 's remembrance . ’ |
| 26 | There had been sightings , his family was powerful enough to keep him hidden and safe from the inevitable hanging ‘ should he show his face on the shores of Albion again' — a favourite phrase of Joseph 's , picked up from a knife-grinder whose preoccupation with Bligh , the Bounty and the Mutiny had almost equalled Joseph 's as witnessed in a fierce contest of informational prowess contested in the snug of the Bull in Lorton where the knife-grinder had eventually conceded defeat and been given several unexpected commissions ( including one from the vicar of Cockermouth who disliked Joseph intensely and produced a cluster of blunt knives and dullest scissors to prove it ) as compensation . |
| 27 | I can hear the dogs panting ahead and occasionally I am flurried by snow kicked up from a runner . |
| 28 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 29 | ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said . |
| 30 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |