Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 2 | Another way of seeing Cutler 's position , especially his historical schema , is as a conflation of Marx and Marshall McLuhan ; ‘ mode of production ’ as organizing concept gets mixed up with the Canadian communication theorist 's ‘ medium is the message ’ philosophy , in which consciousness , cultural forms and social organization all derive primarily from the effects of the various media . |
| 3 | He was ‘ more largely mixed up with the principal people and events of his time than any other man ’ ( Charles Greville , Greville Memoirs , 1874–8 ) . |
| 4 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 5 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 6 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 7 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 9 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 10 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 11 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 12 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 13 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 14 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 15 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 16 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 17 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 18 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 19 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 20 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 21 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 22 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 23 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 24 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 25 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 26 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 27 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 28 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 29 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 30 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |