Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the arrivals list is only made up from guests who have made reservations in advance , it will not show ‘ chance ’ guests or a guest who changes rooms after the list has been circulated . |
| 4 | Far from Freud 's concept of the super-ego being one which assumes the super-ego to be entirely built up from outside , from social relationships with parents and educators only — as Parsons — claims — it , too , contains instinctual elements . |
| 5 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 6 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 7 | Just picked up from teletext … |
| 8 | She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one . |
| 9 | Thus , a Landsat 1–3 MSS false-colour composite image is generally made up from band 7 ( shortwave infrared ) displayed as red , band 5 ( red ) displayed in green and band 4 ( green ) displayed in blue . |
| 10 | Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary . |
| 11 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 12 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 13 | They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there . |
| 14 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 15 | Yet authority is passed down or delegated through the formal organisation ; it is not passed up from supervisors to senior managers . |
| 16 | In newborn babies , the infection is usually picked up from the mother 's vagina during birth . |
| 17 | Have you ever woken up from a full night 's sleep still exhausted ? |
| 18 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 19 | Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare . |
| 20 | Common examples of infective foot disorders are athlete 's foot and verruca , notoriously picked up from public swimming pools and communal bathrooms . |
| 21 | ‘ The number of people in work has also gone up from 33,000 to 37,000 , ’ he said . |
| 22 | She , even though virgin , had imaginative ideas about what they should do , mainly picked up from conversations she 'd had with Justinette and Elice . |
| 23 | Our inner responses to conflict are often dredged up from deep and sometimes murky wells within us . |
| 24 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone . |
| 26 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 27 | Alan Cooke , who has the disadvantage of playing ‘ cold ’ in the doubles while his opponents are invariably warmed up from previous games , hit a cascade of winners in the crucial mid-match doubles . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists . |
| 30 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |