Example sentences of "and [verb] up from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie pushed back her coffee and got up from the table . |
| 2 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 3 | She finished her drink and got up from the table . |
| 4 | He shook his head and got up from the table , taking his plate to the sink to rinse it . |
| 5 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 6 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 7 | For he just pushed his plate aside , wiped his mouth on the back of his hand , and getting up from the table once again went out of the house without saying a word . |
| 8 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The night was clear , and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests . |
| 11 | He shoved the half-empty plate away and jumped up from the table . |
| 12 | I could not speak to anyone , but when the bridge players saw me they threw down their cards and jumped up from the table . |
| 13 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 14 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 15 | ‘ But the wind is blowing dust and leaves up from the ground , ’ Cleo said . |