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

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1 I have therefore asked Establishment if the room on the fourth floor can be cleared of stores and made available for our clerical staff , and if , as you requested , desks and other facilities for our own use can be got up into the smaller room at the top of the spiral staircase …
2 Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight .
3 That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest .
4 ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’
5 Got up on the wall
6 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 .
7 or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied .
8 Cos , did n't gon na say know when Jessica got up cos I 've got pretend erm got up for the erm
9 As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid !
13 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 .
14 More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years .
15 You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus .
16 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 .
17 He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand .
18 She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly .
19 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 .
20 She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen .
21 He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood .
22 Nails got up to the railway sidings early .
23 She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house .
24 When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited .
25 After stops for punctures we got up to the snow .
26 Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane .
27 ‘ The twenty-five ships from Denmark got up to the Orkney ships , ’ the signalman said , ‘ and surrounded them .
28 As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks .
29 We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used
30 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 .
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