get up• He could not think of a reason to get up.• So they knock me down and I shake my head and I get up.• I got up about seven, had a little breakfast and went to catch the bus for Fulham.• Masklin got up and padded across the metalfloor to the door.• She got up and turned off the TV.• Frankgets up at halfpast five every morning.• I think we should get up early and leave before breakfast.• Why is always me who gets up first?• Maxgot up from his chair and shook her hand.• When Maura came in, he got up from the table and poured the coffee.• I can't get up. Give me a hand, will you?• I watched how slowly he got up, how stiff he seemed.• She goes to bed late and gets up late.• It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal.• One of her friends helped her to get up off the floor.• I got up off the grass and strolled over to where Rob was sitting.• I was left with Maria when the others got up to dance.• Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ashtray.• Automatically I got up to object, but again I caught myself and sat down without a word.• What time do you need to get uptomorrow?
get (somebody) up• I dreaded to think what would happen if the two got mixed up.• Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.• I fell down, knocked me walking-frame over and I couldn't get meself up again.• If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!• While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the GulfWarveterangot swept up in an off-base drugscene.• Any damnedfool can get a plane up in the air.• Left unstirred, simmeringsoup will produce a scum that gets caught up in the eddies.• He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.
get it up• He'd see it raise slightly, but he couldn't quite get it up.• Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.• She won't be able to get it up on her own anyway.• Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there.• And she's got it up top, an' all.