Example sentences of "get up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 2 | Got up on the wall |
| 3 | We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night . |
| 4 | or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied . |
| 5 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 6 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 7 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 8 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 9 | You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus . |
| 10 | He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand . |
| 11 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 12 | She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen . |
| 13 | She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly . |
| 14 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 15 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 16 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 17 | ‘ The twenty-five ships from Denmark got up to the Orkney ships , ’ the signalman said , ‘ and surrounded them . |
| 18 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 19 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 20 | Nails got up to the railway sidings early . |
| 21 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 22 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 23 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 24 | It was erm photo of some curtains , he said they exactly the same as Joanna got up for the lounge . |
| 25 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 26 | Jones went like that to her and she 's , Cat 's following her you know and then Jones got up on the wall and Cat was looking at her and Cat was going like that and Jones was going chee chee like that and then , you know the fence there ? |
| 27 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 28 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 29 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 30 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |