Example sentences of "got up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand .
2 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 .
3 She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen .
4 She got up off the bed and went to the door , her heart thumping wildly .
5 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 .
6 He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood .
7 but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet .
8 When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited .
9 After stops for punctures we got up to the snow .
10 Nails got up to the railway sidings early .
11 She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house .
12 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 .
13 Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee .
14 It was erm photo of some curtains , he said they exactly the same as Joanna got up for the lounge .
15 And I got up on the wall right ?
16 Jones went like that to her and she 's , Cat 's following her you know and then Jones got up on the wall and Cat was looking at her and Cat was going like that and Jones was going chee chee like that and then , you know the fence there ?
17 Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic .
18 I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off !
19 Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
20 And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no !
21 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
22 When I finally got up onto the wing it was dark .
23 And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then .
24 Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death .
25 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
26 He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing .
27 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
28 She often got up in the night .
29 And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides .
30 ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet .
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