Example sentences of "got up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up occasionally and touched the cold glass . |
| 2 | I merely smiled and he got up , patting his face with his handkerchief , talking about the pollution of the water in London , about tests carried out and how soon everyone would have to boil drinking water first , it 's turning into a third-world city , he said , a third-world country , no one will admit it but England is turning into a third-world country . |
| 3 | Peggy got up and hurried over to him . |
| 4 | He got up in his stately way and went over to his pantry . |
| 5 | I got up and left . |
| 6 | Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand . |
| 7 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 8 | I got up and walked quietly out into the early evening . |
| 9 | I got up and started to walk around . |
| 10 | I got up and had another little walk around , finishing up just over the road from Buckingham Palace . |
| 11 | Jenny asked me as we got up to leave . |
| 12 | But the dark night was filled with the metallic throbbing of insects , waves on the sand , and she got up and stood naked on the balcony . |
| 13 | Cameron got up and went over to the back window . |
| 14 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 15 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 16 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 17 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |
| 18 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 19 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 20 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 21 | He put the platter on the floor and got up stiffly . |
| 22 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , someone got up and said I could n't propose throwing redcoats out of Belfast because there were n't any nowadays . |
| 24 | And Niall got up and said , music to my ears , that Erin 's soil was n't green either but we all knew what it meant … |
| 25 | I nearly got up ad went away out of pity , I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child . |
| 26 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 27 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 28 | It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ . |
| 29 | We got up . |
| 30 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |