Example sentences of "up out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | flat-topped Sandoya rears up out of the sea , with , behind it , the tent-like shape of Sør-Fugløya , a bird reserve . |
| 2 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's shot Caspar , ’ he said getting up out of the bracken . |
| 4 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 5 | It must have been a shock , her turning up out of the blue like that . |
| 6 | She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time . |
| 7 | The clutching hand lifted up out of the water , the dark pit beyond the open door : all the old , despairing images passed momentarily through her troubled mind … . |
| 8 | The old familiar image of that desperately clutching hand , rising up out of the waves and then sinking again for ever , created itself in her mind 's eye . |
| 9 | So Aaron makes a golden calf , and when the people see it , they cry , ‘ These are your gods , O Israel , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt ! ’ |
| 10 | The goodwill died with the fire and black shapes loomed up out of the dark . |
| 11 | She visualised him as a dolphin , rising up out of the waves , the moisture on his sleek , dark skin as bright as stars . |
| 12 | I edged along the curtain in the upstream direction of the shut door and by hauling my way up the links at the side managed to scramble round the boathouse wall and up out of the water to roll at last onto the grassy bank . |
| 13 | Tied the painter to a mooring post and stepped up out of the boat . |
| 14 | ‘ Right , sir , ’ Doone said , as I stood up out of the car , ‘ we 've done nothing here so far . |
| 15 | The lead climber , Sedlmayer , caught sight of a possible bivouac ledge , and simultaneously a man 's face , looming up out of the icy fog . |
| 16 | Sticking straight up out of the sea as if they 'd grown there . |
| 17 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 18 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 19 | Eachuinn Odhar strode splashing up out of the water to meet Lady Marion . |
| 20 | The great , grey stones seemed to be heaving themselves up out of the earth like pieces of ancient bone , to squat in the alien flesh of the present . |
| 21 | Evidence of just how viscous the lavas are , and how great the forces involved are , was provided by the great spine which was pushed up out of the vent of Mt Pelee , reaching over 300 metres in height . |
| 22 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 23 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 24 | Dropped by helicopter at Fifth Reef Pipeline , he saw the mother of all waves rear up out of the water . |
| 25 | The energy you 're pulling up out of the earth , out of the river , out of the air . ’ |
| 26 | For many it was their first introduction to a New Age in which the governments and countries would fall or be changed , society and the family would expire and a new order would rise up out of the ashes of old values and beliefs . |
| 27 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 28 | Eventually we were taken up out of the cells and charged . |
| 29 | Could you direct me to that old ship — what 's it called ? — they dragged it up out of the — ’ |
| 30 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |