Example sentences of "would get up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will .
2 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 .
3 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 . ’
4 That took care of Strathtummel ; Atholl would get Up in the morning to find half his country crumbling under his feet .
5 I would get up in the morning , step out of my caravan , face the ocean and do my exercises , followed by my ritual routine .
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