Sentence examples for gets up only from inspiring English sources

The real Thomas's description of Vera at the time implies a far more interesting character than the one in the movie: "Vera lives on cocoa, and reads books about the technique of third-century brass work, and gets up only once a day to boil the cat an egg, which it detests".

Mazurek had maintained that Wells got up only to escalate the confrontation.

Swisher got up only a few seconds later.

One notable match lasted five days, with both players getting up only for bathroom breaks.

At first we could get up only about three of those a day.

The women started on the floor, one cradling the other, and got up only to keep spiraling back down and up again, restlessly.

Ms. Toro claimed the living room as her sanctuary; she rarely strays from her bed there, getting up only to use the bathroom.

I pictured him prone on the bed, gray bearded and possibly naked, his overabundant corpus spread out like something that got up only to eat".

Kwan got up, only to fall again, later in the program, which allowed Tara Lipinski to take the title away from her and to become, at 14, the youngest national champion ever.

We are in this together, the dying game, and I read for hours in the evening with one foot on her back, getting up only to open a new can of beer or take blankets to the basement.

Mornings we'd wake up late, stumble to Veselka or Café Orlin in the East Village for something greasy and restorative, then trundle home to collapse on the sofa, felled by the cocktail flu, giving us permission to watch basketball doubleheaders and doze all day in each other's arms, getting up only to be ill.