Example sentences of "[verb] got [adv prt] from " in BNC.

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1 This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street .
2 long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all
3 As General Erich von Falkenhayn , in overall command of the German forces on the front , was later to comment : ‘ After a relatively short artillery preparation they [ the Russian troops ] had got up from their trenches and simply marched forward . ’
4 Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton .
5 By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda .
6 He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
7 Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him .
8 He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless .
9 I do n't know who 's got through from the other games , but we 'll take anyone on really I think .
10 I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it .
11 She 's got back from er , Tunisia .
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