Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 2 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 3 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 5 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 6 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 7 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 8 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 9 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 10 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 11 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 12 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 13 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 14 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |
| 15 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 16 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 17 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 18 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 19 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 20 | But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end . |
| 21 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 22 | Penelope arrived muffled up in a duffel coat and with her hair wild and untidy . |
| 23 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 24 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 25 | somebody bought in large quantities er in Finland and started making up in a factory in Harlow erm , at one time , erm , they 're all a bit |
| 26 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 27 | Even the Press box got swept up in the occasion and there were roars of approval from the local scribes when Craig Brewster opened the scoring in the first-half and Dalziel applied the coup de grace in the second . |
| 28 | I ironed my big net here and it meant to go up in the window there . |
| 29 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 30 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |