Example sentences of "[pron] got [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I got up and pawed at his trousers .
2 I got up and walked to the window .
3 But luckily enough I got up and walked round the back and I could just see the lights on in the living room downstairs .
4 When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter .
5 I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ .
6 I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker .
7 I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions .
8 In my dream I got up and went to the office .
9 At five o'clock I got up and went into the sitting-room .
10 Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think .
11 I got up and ran after him .
12 I got up and raced after them .
13 I got up and dressed in a sweater and pants , made my bed , then sat on the end and shook physically with anxiety .
14 Grinding my teeth with rage at everything , I got up and dressed in slacks and my old trenchcoat .
15 With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet .
16 I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home .
17 It was one of my more regrettable decision — for I got up and moved towards Gharr , and Mala .
18 But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand .
19 I got out and walked across , come back
20 I got out and sat beside Florence in the back .
21 I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one .
22 She got up and came to him ; she leant down and kissed him .
23 It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house .
24 ‘ I do n't know what you 're finding so funny , ’ she said , and she got up and went into the garden , thinking , as she looked back , that Barbs had always had the ability to put people at odds with each other and , seemingly , was able to do it when she was n't even there .
25 Restlessly , she got up and went into Nina 's office where a small black-and-white television sat on top of the filing cabinets .
26 She got up and went into the kitchen .
27 Then she got up and went to the mirror above the desk .
28 Then she got up and went to the front door and , as she did every night , and had always done , since Jack never cared about such matters , locked and bolted it .
29 She got up and went to the door .
30 One night she dreamed that she got up and went to the lavatory , where she found a new , neatly typed notice fixed over the bowl .
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