Sentence examples for be got up from inspiring English sources

When the men arrive, they are apt to be got up in the Tibetan way, with long, braided hair and huge earrings, but they soon dispose of these.

If only such a posse could be got up to pen a simple missive – "Dear politicians, do your own bloody legwork, love from some shopkeepers" – perhaps we'd be free of this increasingly tedious device.

Night is a heavy cart, rumbling toward its destinations: the children -- one on Prozac, the other a bed wetter -- to be got up, soothed, fed and packed off; classes to plod through; and no purpose or pleasure within dawn's sight.

If only a similar effort could be got up by lords who regard themselves as worthy of the name to agitate against the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Douglas Hogg and all the donors and bag-carriers.

Perhaps Langella himself can now be got up in that goatee and jumper, assume the suzerainty of Crinkly Bottom, summon up the dark presence of Mr Blobby, and impersonate the great magus himself in his denunciations of political correctness and elf'n'safety.

And I'll keep it a secret because it'll be got up like this picture, and also because manchild cave sounds pretty creepy.

Today, it will be "Get up! Stand up!" by Bob Marley.

What should they be getting up and doing every day?

He lay back on the bed and knew he'd be getting up in a minute.

"At 6am, you are supposed to be getting up and going to work.

The mare may be getting up and down once the contractions come faster and more intensively.