Example sentences of "get up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I have therefore asked Establishment if the room on the fourth floor can be cleared of stores and made available for our clerical staff , and if , as you requested , desks and other facilities for our own use can be got up into the smaller room at the top of the spiral staircase …
2 ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’
3 That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest .
4 As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night .
5 More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years .
6 the water got up to the second step from the top , but , when , instead of turning right into my road if you 'd keep straight on
7 We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used
8 As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks .
9 Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath .
10 We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over
11 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
12 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
13 He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look .
14 You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that .
15 shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’
16 We 've got to make sure we get up into the Premier Division first . ’
17 Set all alarm clocks in the house to ensure you get up at the right hour , or if you 're in a guest house , ask for a breakfast call , nice and early .
18 no you have to get yourself up with your four legs , you 've got four legs so you can get up , that 's it , just , that 's how horses get up on the front legs first , then the back , that 's right
19 Get up to the gipsy camp and warn 'em .
20 As earth gets up in the frosty dark , at the back of the Pole Star
21 And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression .
22 Try to keep regular hours , getting up at the same time however tired you may feel .
23 This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context .
24 The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit .
25 Dari Sound overcame interference before getting up inside the final furlong at Beverley and today 's extra distance may suit him even better .
26 It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight .
27 Beginners often hold the misconception that the best way to hunt gold is to get up into the remotest area they can find , and prospect virgin ground .
28 Failure to get up into the full climb is the usual cause of serious overspeeding during the first third of the launch .
29 Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard .
30 Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road .
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