Example sentences of "get up [to-vb] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So I got up to have a look out of the side window . |
| 7 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I know , well I could n't get up to get an ashtray could I ? |