Example sentences of "get up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | got up with a cry |
| 2 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 3 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 4 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 5 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 6 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 7 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 8 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 9 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 10 | She got up on an elbow . |
| 11 | She got up with a sigh . |
| 12 | Jackets made goal-posts , and : ‘ If you went down you got up with a lump of a cinder in your knee . ’ |
| 13 | And to her amazement Nails got up without a word , dived into the pool , came up alongside Hoomey and started correcting his stroke , bawling into his ear and galvanizing him into twice the effort . |
| 14 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 15 | When the leading lady 's on stage , you do n't notice the rest of the cast , Sabine thought wryly , the wording of madame 's introduction not lost on her , as a young woman got up from a sofa in another part of the room , and came forward with open reluctance . |
| 16 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 17 | He got up after a while and paced round the high-ceilinged room , looking at the layered posters and the soft toys , the two old wardrobes , the small ring-tree on the window ledge , hung with little cheap , colourful rings . |
| 18 | Léonie got up after a moment and went out to get the salad . |
| 19 | And Carolina , yeah , if you get up on a roll , Carolina , jump and across , Carolina come on me , oh watch how she groove , Carolina , come on me , oh watch out you get groove . |
| 20 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 21 | Those laid off get up to a year 's salary and a year of medical coverage , counselling for those seeking new careers and up to $2,500 for job retraining . |
| 22 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 23 | If I get up out a chair it 's murder . |
| 24 | He had in mind particularly the getting up of a patient in the morning , the morning routine and also the going to bed at night . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , hello , Mrs — er — Machin , this is an honour , ’ said Dwight Kronweiser , uncurling himself from his protective position , then getting up with an attempt at expansiveness . |
| 26 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 27 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 28 | ‘ He tackled a player who was getting up after a challenge from someone else — on the touchline . |
| 29 | A long article in Le Monde , which bore a cartoon showing Mr Kohl getting up from a dinner table to join some friends , leaving Mr Mitterrand alone and rather forlorn , the commentator wrote : ‘ The ‘ special relationship ’ between France and Germany is such that all foreign policy questions have an impact on it . |
| 30 | Other main activities related to accidents were getting up from a chair , walking unaided and getting into bed . |