Example sentences of "[verb] up in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 2 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 3 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 4 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 5 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 6 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 7 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 8 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 9 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 10 | The old office boy , Alistair soon saw , was curled up in a sleeping-bag under a work table in the outer room . |
| 11 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 12 | Curled up in a corner of the sofa , Alex took the Concorde ticket out of her bag once again , and set it on the cushions beside her . |
| 13 | ‘ My grandmother says when they 're curled up in a circle with their tails in their mouths , that 's a symbol of eternity , ’ said Emily . |
| 14 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 15 | Or was he , like so many millions of others , caught up in a swell of mindless sentiment which hardly knew what it was doing ? |
| 16 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 17 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 18 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 19 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 20 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 21 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 22 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 23 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 24 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 25 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 26 | Just when you think you 're in for an in-depth discussion on the technicalities of the Joey Beltram mix of state-of-the-art frightcore Techno duo MESSIAH 's last single , you find yourself caught up in a debate about doom and dwarf procuring and rock 'n' roll giants . |
| 27 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 28 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 29 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 30 | Young people were caught up in a whirlwind of activity with , to quote a social worker , ‘ the teachers and the physios and the medics arguing out who has this square inch of this kid 's time ’ . |