Example sentences of "[vb past] get up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night .
2	We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night .
3	Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid !
4	Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight .
5	Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground .
6	Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road .
7	Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’
8	Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
9	Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
10	‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way .
11	You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water .
12	I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there
13	They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence .

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