How To Use Get up In A Sentence

  • One thing he does is get up to a little competitive devilry by unveiling the Google Pack, a parcel of software programs that you can download for free (if you have a Windows PC).
  • Get up and stretch when on long journeys such as on a coach or plane.
  • It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award.
  • While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
  • If he wasn't so dependent on her for his own survival, he would just get up and keep walking until he reached civilization.
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  • In a moment," Eric said, "the wheelbarrow got bowsed over, when I managed, worse luck, to fall underneath; and then, finding I couldn't get up again, I hailed you, brother. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • But I accept that even when the charge is enticement, the enticed party, like the insulted shikseh, is free to get up and walk into another room. Kalooki Nights
  • He doesn't get up quickly like a rocket but gets up slowly, no matter what the contents are.
  • At the moment a large proportion of motherhood seems to be spent worrying about the fact that Tommy still can't manage to get up into a sitting position on his own.
  • An existing fish pass has fallen into disrepair and is not maintained, resulting in fish finding it hard to get upriver to spawn.
  • I don't go to bed early enough and therefore struggle to get up in time to get ready at a leisurely pace.
  • If I get up, the dog will wake up and follow me outside.
  • Get up early and you can watch frenetic flower auctions or meander through the flower gallery while enjoying the designer floral arrangements. The Sun
  • The ‘get up and go test’ measures mobility and involves timed standing from an armless chair, walking fast for 10 yards, returning, and sitting down.
  • I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself.
  • It is a brilliant feeling to get up on stage and perform in front of thousands of people.
  • But I'll get up on my soapbox about almost anything if I hear someone else express a strong opinion about it that I don't agree with.
  • You'll get up close to the wildlife, including giraffe, zebra, impala and wildebeest, and all riding abilities are catered for, including beginners.
  • Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
  • We go do our stuff, we'll get up there in four, five days, it's all kosher. DESPERADOES
  • I poetize generously so please dont get upset opinionated I am who isnt in the spiders net Archive 2009-05-01
  • His parents have to get up twice a night to administer the drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bailey saved ground as the field bunched into the turn and then urged the son of Hernando clear on the outside wearing down four rivals to get up by a neck.
  • I knew the fire would need re-kindling and decided to get up a bittie earlier than usual. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • But I did get up and play a game of pool - which I lost by sinking the cue ball on my 8-ball shot.
  • They fall down and get up again; they educate themselves and kick over the traces.
  • Get up early and make the most of your tumbling blonde hair. The Sun
  • They would get up to about a foot long and were almost neon green in colour.
  • When I get upset, people humor me and tell me it's okay - that I'll get over it.
  • Sleeping patterns may also be affected, hence the reason that young people go to bed later and get up later.
  • Let's get up a what-d'you-call-it to the thing they call a government. The Purple Land
  • The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave.
  • But haggle hard and you can get up to 4,000 off that price. The Sun
  • But many people find that getting up an hour earlier in the mornings is effective for getting writing done, especially if it is before the kids get up. What Will You Give Up To Write Your Book? by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
  • If we take a look at each category, it quickly becomes apparent that many websites need to get up to speed.
  • I needed to get up, not loll there like a Victorian heroine. Raziel
  • I had to get up way before her father left for work so that she wasn’t left alone, but that got plain exhausting in about 5 minutes so I got fat instead. it is very difficult to exercise when a small child is with you. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 26 Feb
  • Nexon to get updated on other content that will be added to it, including "Evy," the mage character, who wields a quarterstaff (that can be modified to become a giant scythe) and the power of Source-engine-powered sorcery. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. 
  • Jenny and Jim watched him get up passively from his seat at the kitchen table.
  • They will have to get up to speed quickly. Times, Sunday Times
  • We exchange news, get updates about the grandchildren, laugh at family jokes and continue to strengthen the bonds between us.
  • Everyone at the table seemed to instantly get up, and soon other tables followed suit.
  • Get up close and personal with some of the world 's most stunning performers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never saw how girls and boys could get upset at tallness or the lack thereof.
  • Likewise you knew when you woke up today that it was Monday and that you'd better get up sharpish because you were expected back at work this morning.
  • I meant to get up and insist on being allowed access to the radio, but somehow, I drowsed again.
  • Many beaters like to carry their own stick, to help them get up and down banks, as well as for beating the undergrowth.
  • If I forget this and bonk my head on the window and fall behind the couch in my attempt, I will not get up and do the same thing again.
  • September 5, 186 --- i got up erly this morning befoar father went to Boston and took cair of Nellie and swept out the stable and luged in the water and split a lot of wood and blacked fathers boots and set up and had breckfast with him. i was hoaping he wood let me go out of the yard. but he dident say nothing about that but did say i had got to get up evry morning befoar he goes away and do my chores i done them so well this morning. i thougt that was a prety mean thing for him to do. i wished Brite and Fair
  • You'll be painting an impressionist picture, not taking a photograph, so I mustn't get upset if some details are missing or distorted. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • Naturally, I get upset when things go wrong.
  • ‘The yacht was heeling over at 35 degrees, and the effort to get up the steps was beyond belief,’ she says.
  • He said temperatures might get up to 18C tomorrow and Thursday, but things would feel cooler again by the weekend with more north and north-west winds.
  • This new series follows groups of twentysomethings to see what they really get up to over a weekend. The Sun
  • That they then get up the next day and talk piously about ‘family values’ is the part that should disturb us the most.
  • The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
  • So now's the time to get up close and personal with your laptop for a bit of stylish sofa surfing. The Sun
  • If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else.
  • It just so happens there are enough nervous nellies in the Labor and National Parties to ensure that such a proposal would not get up.
  • Time to get up and take a walk. Smithsonian Mag
  • Alright, get up here, and switch on the ablative hull armor.
  • Although what he might get up to with a pair of blue suede shoes just doesn't bear thinking about. Times, Sunday Times
  • And while some of us get uptight about smoking, we take a relaxed view of drinking.
  • He will get up in Parliament within the next 3 years and demand better roads between Napier and Hastings, and demand a sweetheart deal on an airport.
  • Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. The People of the Abyss
  • I believe there is nothing more to be said or done to-night, "responded the duke, in a desponding tone -- for it _cannot_ be an exhilarating anticipation to have to get up in the morning and stand up to murder, or be murdered, even where the duellist is the bravest of men, backed by the serenest of seconds. The Lost Lady of Lone
  • I think I am both physically and emotionally worn out from this (I managed to not break down in tears until after the test was over, but when I was still so woozy from the valium I couldn't get up.) Breakfast in Bed
  • With two reams, he wouldn't have to worry about running out in the middle of a good part and having to get up to run to the store.
  • Elsewhere, we go behind the scenes at Strictly for an exclusive peek into what the stars get up to backstage on o the day of the show. The Sun
  • His custom was to get up early and have a cold bath.
  • The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Paulo Coelho 
  • Elsewhere, we go behind the scenes at Strictly for an exclusive peek into what the stars get up to backstage on o the day of the show. The Sun
  • It happened that way every day - get up, go to work, come back, sleep - and sometimes she wished something would happen to break the humdrum routine.
  • It prevents people from stopping and loitering there for all hours of the night and deciding what mischief they're going to get up to.
  • At five o'clock in the morning, the reveille sounds and prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukov lies in his bunk, wondering if he should get up.
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them.they make them. 
  • They say people usually get upset and scream blue murder and all that shite, but no me.
  • Get up sucker and fight. The Sun
  • There was one floor of all matching camping gear so dolly and you could hit the hay in cloned sleep sacks and pyjamas, and then get up, all cosy and co-ordinated, in farmyardy dungarees and cute knobbly lumberjack shirts.
  • You get up to 3% cashback on all card purchases in the first three months. Times, Sunday Times
  • If I were really worried, I'd get a stepladder and get up closer to her and see how she reacted… if she didn't seem eager to come down, I'd probably not force the issue.
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. 
  • When I get upset, people humor me and tell me it's okay - that I'll get over it.
  • I don't doubt that the Times reporters get up in the morning and, as I do, look to see whether a favorite rumor has made it into print or on the air.
  • This is mail I fully intended to answer, but I get up and flush the lot down the brasco.
  • If she flinches, makes an outcry and tries to get up from the sofa, don't worry.
  • He called the missis, and they got her into the kitchen and gave her a cup of tea and put her to bed, and she'll never get up again, it seems. Women of the Country
  • Me, if I sit over here, I can lean my crutch on the footstool, makes it easier to get up. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. 
  • Your congratulations is appreciated – and I will continue to turn on i-tunes on my laptop and get up and dance every couple hours for my “break”, engaging in my other occupation! Pass The Toilet Paper Please: A True Story of A Writing Journey | Write to Done
  • I get up from this desk every hour or so and indulge in some calisthenics, do you follow? LORD PRESTIMION
  • The crew will get up to 90 servings from a dispenser set up like a soda fountain at a convenience store.
  • But even in some local ridings, John Tory’s name dwarfed the party, which meant if you really wanted to find out who Mark Beckles of the John Tory party was running for, you had to get up real close to the sign and see for yourself. 2008 January 31 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • Baby dogs get upset tummies all the time, especially Goldens - there's nothing they won't try to eat.
  • If someone is strong enough to bring you down,show them you are strong enough to get up.
  • Sit down and sulk or get up and go? Times, Sunday Times
  • The newspaper deliverers have to get up before dawn every day.
  • He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays
  • I started to turn away, making to get up and head to the restroom to find some tissue as I sniffled slightly.
  • I get up from this desk every hour or so and indulge in some calisthenics, do you follow? LORD PRESTIMION
  • The concern is not only picking up the umbers and spreading them but it's been really hard for firefighters to get up in the air, to make any headway with this fire. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007
  • At this, a couple of selection team hopefuls get up and reluctantly drag themselves from the room.
  • But, in fact, he was remembering the arhythmic drumroll and the red burbles, and he became so agitated he had to get up from the bed. Here Comes Another Lesson
  • In Rook-land the rowdy-dowdy, randy-dandy, rollicky-ranky boys get up very early in the morning and go to bed in the afternoon. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
  • There are fewer beautiful people out there who want to get up close and impersonal with us.
  • And actually, as they tried to drive straight up the scarp, they lost traction and had to actually start zigging and zagging to get up the scarp. Images Show A Shrinking Moon
  • From here on out it's pretty much easy stuff, so just get up however you feel like it by traversing to the right.
  • Well I think the most remarkable thing, when you get up really close to them and feel them, is they do have, as we've said, a feel that's somewhat similar to a sharkskin.
  • Women would benefit enormously from this - we are very sensitive and get upset about small things, and men have no idea.
  • This meant you could get up and go over to the other side of the room and lollygag around in the line for sharpening pencils.
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. 
  • His custom was to get up early and have a cold bath.
  • It always bemuses me when people get upset about supercilious piffle like good manners but dont get upset about important things like radical islam, Neathergate, EUSSR, the mps expenses scandal. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • When they get up to leave, you notice the little mimeographed magazine they left face down on the table.
  • We used to get up at the crack of dawn to work during the sales season. Times, Sunday Times
  • It turns out there are deeper differences between night owls and larks than what time they like to go to bed and get up. Times, Sunday Times
  • Seeing no other option than to get up and see what she was after, I harrumphed, and got up to see what was going on. New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
  • When he didn't move to get up she marched over to the curtains and pulled them open.
  • An extra plus is that the song would infuse any crowd at a live show to get up and mosh or dance.
  • DRIVERS who trade in bangers for new cars will get up to 5,000 - if they buy electric. The Sun
  • He could never get up enough nerve to ask Terri out, and his odd hours interfered with meeting anyone.
  • When I came home, Andy had taken his place and showed little inclination to get up after I helped R. on with her robe.
  • Each day the bloggers get up at long past dawn to practice their calisthenic hysterics before ambling off to their lives of quiet desperation, which get louder with each passing day. Scraping the Bottom of the Tar Barrel: James Wolcott
  • Try to get up at the same time every morning, even if you stayed up late the night before.
  • The men considered it now time to get up some "shikar," so they invented a bear. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
  • You get up at 7.30am and it goes on until 10pm. Times, Sunday Times
  • It included all those who shared the pool this week, from his closest pursuers to the freestyler from the Congo who didn't know how to get up on the start blocks and had been training in a hotel pool back home. Lopresti: Golden boy Phelps is the center of USA's attention
  • They wait until the last minute; they get up at the crack of dawn, as the minicab is waiting outside to go to the airport. The Sun
  • The service includes helping users to get up in the morning, bed baths, and other domestic activities that they may not be able to perform on their own.
  • The wall being old, the bricks I held by gave way, just as I was taking a spring to get up; and down came I, and received such a blow upon my head, with one of the bricks, that it quite stunned me; and I broke my shins and my ancle besides, and beat off the heel of one of my shoes. Pamela
  • The little boy was hurt by the fall, but he was game enough to get up and try again.
  • In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
  • ‘I'm never squeamish and I don't usually get upset when I see a body,’ she says.
  • If they get upset, they may become curious and come near the boat.
  • If you're a skier, slap a pair of climbing skins on your skis and you've got an impressively efficient way to get uphill.
  • The attractive girls get up in each other's grilles and talk smack about their cheerleading prowess.
  • Sometimes we hear the beeping and get up, sometimes we hear it and stay put for ten minutes. The Sun
  • Both systems offer a programmable thermostat so your floor will be warm and toasty by the time you get up.
  • He doesn't get up to listen to the Archers omnibus on Sunday mornings,' Moira replied, a gentle tease in her voice. DEAD BEAT
  • On the way out he'd seen the ammunition ship, USS Shasta, just beginning to get up steam. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • If someone is strong enough to bring you down,show them you are strong enough to get up.
  • Sit down and sulk or get up and go? Times, Sunday Times
  • She get up, she get down, she roll, she kick the stomach, like crazy woman.
  • All have views of meadows, woodland and moors, and guests can get up close with farm animals and wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • We managed to provoke him to get up once, when he challenged Opposition members to substantiate their arguments.
  • His guts screamed with pain, and he was so disoriented he couldn't move until the sound of gunshots made him force himself to get up.
  • They that ettle to the top of the ladder will at least get up some rounds. The Monastery
  • If you're using APT, be sure to upgrade your database of available software by typing apt-get update before you use the install subcommand.
  • The greatest, however, that they could get up was, that I always paid the Wanyamuezi "temporaries" more than they got, though "permanents. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
  • At this, a couple of selection team hopefuls get up and reluctantly drag themselves from the room.
  • Some people also complain of tension headaches, stomach cramps and of having to get up repeatedly at night to pass urine.
  • How they get up every morning and have faith in god, is no different than how they get up everymorning and have faith in themselves and the world. Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
  • More than a third of students will get up to 600 on top through a means-tested bursary. Times, Sunday Times
  • He doesn't get up to listen to the Archers omnibus on Sunday mornings,' Moira replied, a gentle tease in her voice. DEAD BEAT
  • Ray says he's a nice guy, but people are starting to get upset with him because he never turns off his cellphone.
  • Well Miss Mollie I had a good laugh at the Sergt Maj When I told him what you wrotehe is such a modest young man, it made him blush. he is perfectly carried a way and if you send many more such messages to him he will go up the Spot. but I have not much fears about you & his Lordship [unclear: getting] married for this reason. he is so very diffident and your shiness of man; Will make it a matter of impossibility to get up a match With out calling in the Third person & of course that Will be my self, of course, and of course, you Will find out that I will do all in my Power to brake up the match as I have an Intrist in your future Welfare myself. Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864
  • Let's get up a what-d'you-call-it to the thing they call a government. The Purple Land
  • Every morning you get up, jump into the ocean, collect hagfish mucous, crawl back onto the beach, rub the slime all over your body, sunbathe for a few hours, and then let a couple of dozen Haitians sniff you before sitting back down to write all about it. Archive 2009-01-25
  • I used to get up early to watch the trams get steam up using coke from the old Christchurch gasworks.
  • We were all fairly surprised to find ourselves barely able to walk straight when we finally did get up.
  • Mr. Dickenson let me get up and I drowsily stumbled over to my bed on the ground.
  • Our usherettes start striking attitudes and arabesques amongst the audience and thus starts the Prelude to a trilogy of vignettes, punctuated by intervals where we are thankfully encouraged to get up and move about.
  • But when we win it back, he wants us to get up the pitch as quick as possible. The Sun
  • Slowly, I get up and run the back of my right hand under my nose to catch the drips that have collected there and sniff to get the rest away.
  • They get up and walk to the corner store, which Javier refers to, with due reverence, as a bodega. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • He either needed to smash Michaels and destroy him at the end of the bout, or Michaels needed to get up and win the title at the last second because after all, isn't that what the match was built on?
  • The direct drive would develop 510-hp at 2400 rpm while the geared engine could get up to 560-hp.
  • Don't say you won't fall. Say you'll get up.-Miriam Homann.
  • Can't sleep at night. Can't get up in the morning.
  • The list includes thinking that policemen look very young these days and grunting when you get up out of a chair. The Sun
  • Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly.
  • To watch birds, the bird-watcher is prepared to get up earlier than the birds.
  • When I got home I put it straight on the television and was glued to the set until the end - I didn't even get up to make a cup of tea!
  • I, for one, will be at a high school wrestling match cheering on my son (and hopefully 3rd generation t-sip), "crackberry" in hand desperating trying to get updates on the game. The Daily News - News
  • -- Get up, Mr. Saddletree -- ye have set yoursell down on the very brecham that wants stitching -- and here's little The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
  • I am a shy person and I actually get embarrassed when people compliment me for my looks. But when I think about it later, I feel good. I don't have any regrets in my life. I am happy with whatever God has given me be it personally or professionally. I get up early in the morning and do yoga to stay fit. I don't go to gym and all. Dharminder 
  • The north-south divide is emphasised by the fact that directors in the north-east and East Midlands also get up to 12 per cent below the average.
  • The cookroom had no end of bins, lockers and drawers to contain the variety of provisions and stores necessary to get up a dinner for the skipper and his guests, when he had any. Within The Enemy's Lines
  • "Get up," she commanded with all the power and authority of a gumball.
  • Get up steam, and you will be sure to succeed.
  • We get up at 6.30 am and head out to the beach with our wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, machete and rubbish bags.
  • But when we win it back, he wants us to get up the pitch as quick as possible. The Sun
  • There, as if really unable to get up again, he remained crouching under the groyne, looking up in an attitude of painful anxiety. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
  • If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas. 
  • O how I envy those people who can get up have a leisurely breakfast of something healthy and wholesome, browse through the papers before stress free, amble through the park to work.
  • I resolved to get up at 7am and scrub everything in the house with a homemade paste of bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar.
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them.they make them. 
  • Ready to get up close and personal? Times, Sunday Times
  • He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches. Obama stumps in Las Vegas to bail out Harry Reid
  • But few people realize how long it will take before these directors get up to speed, change a corporate culture, and, if necessary, sweep out the laggards.
  • She had never actually seen a widgie but she knew Stella's get up was exactly the kind of thing troublemakers wore.
  • Vassal AI does not get upset because of Master's defensive pacts with third parties.
  • But his left leg had begun to fidget up and down, up and down, and this made Johnny nervous. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award.
  • It took me about a few seconds to regain composure and get up from whatever I had fallen on.
  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. 
  • Every morning when I get up,seeing you and the sunshine,that's the future I want.
  • CDs took a convenient step forward vs. albums by introducing advanced programmability - specifically, the ability to search for and play a desired song, skipping over the rest without having to get up and move the needle forward or back on a spinning turntable. iTunes took it to the next level, making it possible to buy songs one at a time, with even more programmability. Jarvis Coffin: An iTunes for magazines?
  • Dorothea was a "sleepyhead" and had seldom been known to get up when first awakened. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk

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