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

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1 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 .
2 You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus .
3 Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death .
4 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
5 He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing .
6 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
7 She often got up in the night .
8 And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides .
9 ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet .
10 Theodora got up in the expectation of being dismissed .
11 The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash .
12 When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty .
13 They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that .
14 When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate .
15 When Chola got up in the morning the hut was like a dark capsule afloat in mist .
16 On awakening it will rise from five to ten beats a minute , and during the day it will rise gradually and may be up to ten beats higher at bedtime than it was when you got up in the morning .
17 Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night .
18 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
19 Visitors were instructed to ask what time working class wives got up in the morning and to elicit a history of the way in which they organised their day 's work .
20 You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning .
21 And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still
22 ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source .
23 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
24 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
25 You just automatically got up in the morning , jumped in your car , went to work , you were there for half six , sun shone , cup of tea , read the Sun , sit down , get on your lathe , have your break at ten o'clock , lunch time , have your meal and then you have a game of football outside in the car park or whatever , and you had a daily little routine .
26 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
27 There were many comments on those women who wore ‘ the new hipless corsets ’ and who ‘ get up in the middle and walk out if bored ’ ; there were frequent references to squalor , aromas , diabolical pianos , and very mixed audiences .
28 It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear .
29 I used to wash at night , and get them all dry , get up in the night , iron them , and take them to the pawn shop .
30 We talked about that moment when travel became a substitute for work ( … get up in the morning … find the train times … see the cathedral … ) ; for life itself .
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