Example sentences of "getting up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 2 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 3 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 6 | The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat . |
| 7 | Finally the Director brought the whole thing to a close ; he pulled his papers towards him , preparatory to getting up and said , |
| 8 | ‘ But he might as well have this before getting up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No danger of your brother ever getting up too early , ’ she said and went to call Michael . |
| 10 | There is no break between getting up , washing , husking rice for breakfast , eating the breakfast , making basket work , stopping to chat , going out to cultivate the kitchen garden , mending household objects and tools , going to the field , fishing for crayfish in a nearby stream , swimming there , herding the cattle , playing a musical instrument , etc . |
| 11 | Getting up is purgatory . |
| 12 | ‘ My God ! ’ said Wexford , getting up . |
| 13 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 14 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 15 | • Advance your meal times by the same amount as you change your times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 16 | • Change your meal times to fit in with your delayed times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 17 | Having decided upon getting up , an individual will then eat several meals and snacks as part of a ‘ normal ’ pattern of eating . |
| 18 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 19 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 20 | Again this might not always be possible , but going to bed and getting up earlier are not likely to intrude too much upon your normal working life . |
| 21 | Against all expectations , getting up at five is actually easier in winter . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's getting up ’ . ’ . |
| 23 | Joint Sovereignty won over the course and distance winner when getting up to beat the smart Golden Freeze a neck in the Mackeson Gold Cup . |
| 24 | ‘ The only thing I 'm worried about is getting up in the morning , ’ said yesterday 's driver , who asked not to be named . |
| 25 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 26 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 27 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 28 | When she got back they were getting up , having baths , shivering and grumbling . |
| 29 | First he had to sustain the shock of getting up at eight am , then he had to wash and transform his carefully arranged untidy hair into real tidiness , for on this day , the bucket hat was taboo . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's shot Caspar , ’ he said getting up out of the bracken . |