Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 2 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
| 3 | The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates . |
| 4 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 8 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 12 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 13 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 17 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 18 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 19 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 20 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 23 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 24 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 25 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 26 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 29 | All her fifteen combed and scrubbed years rose up in an endless vista of baths and shampoos and clean underwear ; a cortege of full baths in which she had washed herself , a slithering file of bars of soap which she had rubbed to nothing against her flesh . |
| 30 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |