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

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1 And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't .
2 They 've also got up a selection of works by contemporary Latin American artists .
3 If someone had got up a petition for that bloke who refused to pay his ticket because the heating did n't work , I would have signed it .
4 Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses .
5 I decided to go for broke , and get up a performance of my own . ’
6 " Mr. James Christie intimated to the Meeting that he would move at next meeting that the Members get up a Flower and Vegetable Show sometime during this season . "
7 Get up a bit earlier and try a bit harder
8 ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant .
9 Well i it 's a lot to do with the , the how light it is , I always get up a lot more easily I think when it 's , it 's not dark .
10 But she just gets up a bit quick .
11 But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else .
12 But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again .
13 erm , for getting up a lot
14 ‘ I think I 'll go round getting up a petition from the residents . ’
15 She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper .
16 " Now that he wo n't have Ma to talk to , and there 's no Mr Blake to get up a subscription if he goes down , I 'd say he might lose heart altogether .
17 ‘ I 'll just have to get up a bit earlier , that 's all . ’
18 HOW TO GET UP A HEAD OF ESTEEM .
19 Michael Brown , president of Ilkley and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce in 1986 , told me it was difficult nowadays to get up a trade team as the number of small local traders has declined .
20 Well so you 've got to get up a ladder to get at it .
21 I might go for a stroll to get up an appetite — the exercise 'll do me good . ’
22 Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . "
23 I find I can get up a rhythm with this simple notation , more irregular passes with the lace carriage make me lose count .
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