Example sentences of "get up [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was got up to resemble a jungle , with prints of animals and birds on the walls , mosquito netting draped around , all in shades of khaki and saffron . |
| 2 | I do n't know how she got up to fix the ceiling chains . ’ |
| 3 | At an officers council two of the lads got up to sing a duet at a free and easy sing-song after the intensity of the day . |
| 4 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 5 | Penry got up to take the trays . |
| 6 | I said I felt ill , and got up to open the door . |
| 7 | Carrie got up to bring the union man some more tea and when she returned with two filled mugs she sat down heavily . |
| 8 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 9 | When they had all finished the coffee , Bob got up to pay the bill , leaving John to apologise for his misplaced piece of mockery . |
| 10 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 11 | She still said nothing , but got up to make the tea . |
| 12 | So I got up to have a look out of the side window . |
| 13 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 14 | When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter . |
| 15 | He moved again , and gladly she leaned over and pressed the bell on the wall beside the cot and got up to get the breast tray . |
| 16 | He got up to fetch a cloth to wipe the tiny mess , at the same time bringing another strip of herring which Eyvør accepted daintily before tucking its small unpuffin-like beak into its back feathers and dozing off again . |
| 17 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 18 | It was in the original setting we realise the zany difference between myself and Chris that when Graham gets up to speak the earth moves . |
| 19 | ‘ Quite often I write songs in my head , ’ he claims , before getting up to answer a phone call from Brett , looking to arrange rehearsal times . |
| 20 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 21 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 22 | She wo n't get up to feed the swine |
| 23 | I know , well I could n't get up to get an ashtray could I ? |