Example sentences of "got up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George got up and put bits of breakfast onto a plate . |
| 2 | He got up and put the light on , shivering . |
| 3 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 4 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 5 | She got up and limped forward . |
| 6 | " Oh — all right , then , " she said , concealing her disappointment " She got up and gathered her knitting together . |
| 7 | Sikes got up and locked the door . |
| 8 | He put his coffee cup down on a pile of English magazines , got up and stretched himself . |
| 9 | Billy looked gloomy and his friend got up and collected the empty mugs . |
| 10 | Rachaela got up and fed the baby . |
| 11 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 12 | Lee got up and ran back to the toilet , picking up the helmet that was on the floor . |
| 13 | I got up and ran after him . |
| 14 | Vern got up and ran , straight down the steep hill into the undergrowth . |
| 15 | Luke 's next words are typical of faith 's inherent drive for resolution : ‘ Peter , however , got up and ran to the tomb , and , peering in , saw the wrappings . ’ |
| 16 | The second officer said : ‘ I got up and ran out of the tent . |
| 17 | When the manager refused it , she got up and ran back upstairs to the dealing floor . |
| 18 | He got up and ran down the rock . |
| 19 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 20 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 21 | Pascoe got up and checked the lock on the door . |
| 22 | At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment , gathering several sticks as well . |
| 23 | She got up and checked the wardrobes , and her bemusement became sheer bewilderment . |
| 24 | He got up and arranged his clothes . |
| 25 | He got up and reached for the phone . |
| 26 | Smiling her thanks at Mary — or Rose — she quickly got up and followed him . |
| 27 | Celia got up and followed her into the kitchen , and there were muffled sounds of crying . |
| 28 | ‘ He drank from the moment he got up and continued throughout the day , although it did n't show . |
| 29 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 30 | The forms in the waiting-room were most uncomfortable and at one period she got up and began to walk about , apparently to the consternation of other people who , docilely , were also waiting for news . |