Example sentences of "got up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |
| 2 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 3 | If you wan na make a point about that well well we 'll point about them erm there is er a comment erm in this erm erm yeah on paragraph , paragraphs four and five , page five the first of we will buy them including all the legislation that will reduce and if you got up to page three , paragraph six there 's a claim that levels are eight percent higher on the same money ! |
| 4 | Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast at the weekends , but on Miles ' first morning she appeared punctually at half past eight . |
| 5 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 6 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 7 | When Rowland recently got up on stage with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at London 's Town & Country Club ( reuniting three of the four surviving BP members ) the old songs were greeted with hysteria . |
| 8 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 9 | I got up at quarter to twelve I was starving so I had a er er |
| 10 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 11 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 12 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 13 | Jones was struck especially by Citizen Thelwall , who , wearing the white hat of the radical , got up after dinner and ‘ talked so loud and was in such a Passion that Jones was frightened ’ . |
| 14 | In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach . |
| 15 | In Sydney , I remember , you never got up before midday . ’ |
| 16 | I got up before dawn and made my mooring at Fambridge while there was still water to row ashore . |