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"Get up" in a Sentence (29 examples)
The tired horse eventually got up and over the hurdle.
I'm having difficulty getting up the stairs.
When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.
I didn't get up until midday.
We know what it is to get out of bed on a freezing morning in a room without a fire, and how the very vital principle within us protests against the ordeal. Probably most persons have lain on certain mornings for an hour at a time unable to brace themselves to the resolve. We think how late we shall be, how the duties of the day will suffer; we say, "I must get up, this is ignominious," etc.; but still the warm couch feels too delicious, the cold outside too cruel, and resolution faints away and postpones itself again and again just as it seemed on the verge of bursting the resistance and passing over into the decisive act. Now how do we ever get up under such circumstances? If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than not get up without any struggle or decision at all. We suddenly find that we have got up.
Get up off the couch and clean this mess!
That guy's not getting up, is he?
As dusk fell a storm got up.
The general got up a large body of men.
The locomotive got up a good head of steam.
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I could see that he was getting up a temper.
City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one could get up in support of the winger.
He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen.
Back in January 1989, as soon as Rod got up me that night, I knew he rated me, cared about what I did and how I performed. I felt I′d climbed a big step up the credibility ladder.
I said ok and resorted to only taunting or using a taunt spell to get mobs off the wizzy but the cleric got up me for that too.
To those of you who (and there a ^([sic]) a few) who got up me yesterday at Mt White for being a slack-arse and not replacing the rear tyre on the 'Bird, I can now state for the record that she's shod with a brand new 020.
Alan, silver-haired and full of Aussie wit, tells me how his favourite cousin got up him recently, ‘Of course, you get yourself into these situations if you′re always trying to be the hero.’ That really annoyed him.
Well, Beaver said at last. Somethin′s got up him. Like you said—people have regrets.
She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.
He got himself up for the party.
There's so much getting up to please the town, / It takes a precious deal of “coming down ;”
Leroy is gotten up in blaxploitation mod capes and jump suits, trying to look like Isaac Hayes as possible.
You will stand out all the more at this time of the year, when most travellers are got up like John Candy in Summer Rental.
Looking at the polling, I don't reckon this referendum will get up.
If the Blues happen to win, next day at Roma Saleyards you wouldn't know there'd been a game, but if the Maroons get up they drive it into the NSW buyers at every pen.
'The Curry for the Country' minister's rave was, 'If Labor got up, Albo and his lot of mad loony socialist greenies were going to force all Australians to drive electric vehicles. Imagine our nation without the heady aroma of diesel.'
We better get up out of here.
You have to get up with your career.
He got up on his game.
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