Example sentences of "getting up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 2 | But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient , repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch . |
| 3 | before we start getting up to the kind of figures where we can actually see a you know |
| 4 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 5 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 6 | Shape of gentleman getting up in the afternoon |
| 7 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 8 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 9 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I 'm worried about is getting up in the morning , ’ said yesterday 's driver , who asked not to be named . |
| 11 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 15 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 16 | A job gives structure and a reason for getting up in the morning : it gives human contact with colleagues , it gives ‘ busyness ’ . |
| 17 | Even getting up in the morning is difficult for some . |
| 18 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 19 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Poor Laura — you never were any good at getting up in the morning , were you ? ’ he mocked softly , taking the clattering cup and saucer from her shaking hands , before leaning forward to brush a stray tendril of hair from her brow . |
| 21 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 22 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 23 | Aha that 's what I do , it 's like getting up in the morning Mark . |
| 24 | So you 'll getting up in the morning ? |
| 25 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 26 | She timed this operation very carefully , applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table . |
| 27 | Getting Up from the Floor |
| 28 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , then , ’ he said , getting up from the table . |
| 30 | For he just pushed his plate aside , wiped his mouth on the back of his hand , and getting up from the table once again went out of the house without saying a word . |