poke up

To get more light for the operation, he poked up the fire.

John could just see the top of someone's head poking up from behind the desk.

I nearly got away, but as my head poked up under his arm the girl caught hold of it.

He saw his father's feet poking up from the rubble.

Have another glass of tea and poke up the fire.

She saw the college buildings poking up below her through the trees.

I could see them just beginning to poke up through the grass.

He wanted to be ready for them when they poked up higher to shoot along the level of the floor.

Some pointed structure poked up from the Road, too far ahead to make out.

My head is starting to poke up out of the magic.

A ladder poked up through a hole in the floor.

Then a head poked up about a hundred paces from us.

Inside, they heard Grandma poking up a fire in the library.

Tom poked up the fire and tossed on some more wood.

But I spotted his brown hair poking up over the top of the sand.

Occasionally I could her head poke up above the level of the roof.

Like a great drill bit poking up from the bottom of the lake.

Make sure there are no ends of wire poking up.

He wanted to see the new green of the rushes by the water's edge poking up through the dead stuff.

He put his finger on something poking up the skin near the stomach.

It sounds like you wouldn't know the mushrooms are there until they poke up out of the ground.

They stopped, for there before them a bony arm and hand were poking up from the ground.

A slip of paper poking up from the jacket pocket.