Example sentences of "get up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once the tantrum or violence has calmed down and the child has stopped fighting and crying he or she can get up off the chair .
2 Anthony left instructions that you could get up for a couple of hours if you felt up to it .
3 Och , Ah 've been dyin' tae get up for a weekend amang yirsels .
4 • If you wake during the night ( sometimes because you need to empty your bladder ) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible , Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock .
5 If it was Atherton he 'd never get up into the wood and back before his Dad carne home .
6 Via your satellite receiver you can get up to the minute teletext plus superb stereo radio .
7 The only way we could get up to the nest was to borrow a ladder from a neighbouring farmer and climb up .
8 There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof .
9 One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will .
10 And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed .
11 I 'll never get up on the wagon .
12 ‘ And anyway , how did he get up on the roof ? ’
13 ‘ You ca n't take your friend 's dog out but you can get up at the crack of dawn to set your hair . ’
14 but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it .
15 She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary .
16 Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads .
17 A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’
18 There was no need for me to get up and prowl around while the rest of the family was sleeping because I could read all night , if I wanted to , and if I did n't get up until the middle of the day , no one seemed to mind very much .
19 Er yes I 'm gon na get up in a minute anyway , so
20 No I , well I 'm gon na , yeah okay , but I mean she , well you 're gon na be , you 'll get up in a moment now wo n't you ?
21 Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity .
22 Wherever he went in the house , he carried reams of calculations and sometimes would get up in the middle of a meal because he suspected that his calculator was at fault .
23 you 've got ta get up in the mood Jane , I did Saturday morning
24 Often she did n't get up in the mornings , lying in bed while Emmie got breakfast and made her a cup of tea .
25 And there was pain as well as pride in working right to the end , as did the 99-year-old Suffolk widow who ‘ worked on the land all her life ’ or the Derbyshire midwife in her eighties who still ‘ would get up in the night and walk miles to attend a confinement . ’
26 That took care of Strathtummel ; Atholl would get Up in the morning to find half his country crumbling under his feet .
27 Consider , for instance , the following string , and see where implausibility enters : ‘ the text makes no response … the text evades the reader 's interrogation … the text is frequently silent … the text is idle and will not get up in the morning . ’
28 The women , as usual , bore the brunt of it , for everyone stayed up late , children refused to go to bed at night and men would not get up in the morning .
29 As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go .
30 Even an agreement about the time you might get up in the morning , and who gets up first , for instance , is important .
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