Example sentences of "get up [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 2 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 3 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 4 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 5 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 6 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 7 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 8 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 9 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 10 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 11 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 12 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 13 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 14 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 15 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 16 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 17 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 18 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 19 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 20 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 21 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 22 | The difference last week sit down getting up to go to Blackbushe . |
| 23 | These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . |
| 24 | ‘ I think if I was to get up to dance at a party , Kate would say , ‘ Oh , do n't dance , Dad — you 're a parent , you 're not supposed to do that sort of thing . ’ |
| 25 | I said , but you 've got to get up to get to the |
| 26 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 27 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 28 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 29 | About eight o'clock in the morning I would get up put on jodhpurs , shirt , tie and jeans and a jumper to protect my riding clothes . |