Example sentences of "i get up " in BNC.

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1 I got up occasionally and touched the cold glass .
2 I got up and left .
3 Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand .
4 I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go .
5 I got up and walked quietly out into the early evening .
6 I got up and started to walk around .
7 I got up and had another little walk around , finishing up just over the road from Buckingham Palace .
8 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood .
9 I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps .
10 After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality .
11 I got up and quietly bolted the door .
12 After a bit I got up and — I went back .
13 It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site .
14 When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’
15 I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god :
16 ‘ It was very dark when I got up today , ’ I began , trying to speak distinctly but without raising my voice .
17 I got up and made coffee .
18 I got up feeling encouraged and thoroughly supporting her strong positive vision of Europe 's future .
19 It began with a dream I had just before I got up .
20 I got up and raced after them .
21 ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony .
22 Half an hour later , unable to sleep , I got up again .
23 When I got up , Mick was fiddling with his radio on the Land Rover bonnet .
24 I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness .
25 ‘ This is me since I got up , ’ she said .
26 I got up about seven , had a little breakfast and went to catch the bus for Fulham .
27 Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box .
28 I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door .
29 Some time later I got up to go to the loo .
30 I got up and ran after him .
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