Example sentences of "[modal v] get up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 2 | Even an agreement about the time you might get up in the morning , and who gets up first , for instance , is important . |
| 3 | No I , well I 'm gon na , yeah okay , but I mean she , well you 're gon na be , you 'll get up in a moment now wo n't you ? |
| 4 | I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning |
| 5 | Occasionally I 'd get up in the morning and there he 'd be in the kitchen , eating furiously , as if he did n't know where his next grub was coming from , as if each day was an adventure that could end anywhere . |
| 6 | I 'd get up in the morning I 'd have my two pieces of wholemeal bread toasted with a scraping of marmalade on , right , and my butter cos I like that . |
| 7 | Once in a while she 'd get up from the chaos of ribbons and tissue , and go to the window to watch the cold . |
| 8 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 9 | Anthony left instructions that you could get up for a couple of hours if you felt up to it . |
| 10 | The only way we could get up to the nest was to borrow a ladder from a neighbouring farmer and climb up . |
| 11 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 12 | She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary . |
| 13 | One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will . |
| 14 | Wherever he went in the house , he carried reams of calculations and sometimes would get up in the middle of a meal because he suspected that his calculator was at fault . |
| 15 | And there was pain as well as pride in working right to the end , as did the 99-year-old Suffolk widow who ‘ worked on the land all her life ’ or the Derbyshire midwife in her eighties who still ‘ would get up in the night and walk miles to attend a confinement . ’ |
| 16 | That took care of Strathtummel ; Atholl would get Up in the morning to find half his country crumbling under his feet . |
| 17 | I would get up in the morning , step out of my caravan , face the ocean and do my exercises , followed by my ritual routine . |
| 18 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 19 | Via your satellite receiver you can get up to the minute teletext plus superb stereo radio . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't take your friend 's dog out but you can get up at the crack of dawn to set your hair . ’ |
| 21 | Once the tantrum or violence has calmed down and the child has stopped fighting and crying he or she can get up off the chair . |