Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 2 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 3 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |
| 4 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 5 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 6 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 7 | I wo n't be able to wake up in the morning ! |
| 8 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 9 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 10 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 11 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 12 | If it had , they were liable to end up in the Husayn twins ' pockets . |