Example sentences of "get up on a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece .
2 I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded .
3 She got up on an elbow .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door .
7 One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will .
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