Example sentences of "get up [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened .
2 Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton .
3 His Mum got up off his bed and went and opened his cupboard .
4 By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober .
5 Prentice put his arms round Rory 's neck and got up onto his back ; Rory set off at a run .
6 He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle .
7 Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her .
8 At five o'clock she got up from her desk .
9 She got up from her chair and went over to him .
10 Julia got up from her chair so fast that the basketwork shrieked .
11 Julia got up from her chair as quietly as she possibly could and left them alone .
12 She got up from her chair .
13 She got up from her chair .
14 She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter .
15 She got up from her seat and manhandled Caitlin from the room .
16 Seeing this Evelyn got up from her seat and said , ‘ I 'll go and get me Bushmill 's . ’
17 Piper got up from her seat .
18 Suddenly Mr Crick got up from his stool .
19 She went away , and after a minute or two he got up from his bed and went to the window .
20 He got up from his desk and stepped over to the measuring rod .
21 Finally he got up from his desk and walked out into the foyer of the massage parlour .
22 When he got up from his chair he was already spilling the beads from their black purse into his palm .
23 He got up from his chair and held out his arms to her .
24 Fred put down the boot he was polishing and got up from his chair .
25 William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown .
26 Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair .
27 He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains .
28 David got up from his chair and prowled around the room .
29 Cobalt got up from his chair as though nothing had happened to put him off his stroke .
30 Wycliffe folded his table napkin and got up from his chair .
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