Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 3 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 6 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 10 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 11 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 12 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 13 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 14 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 15 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 16 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 19 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 22 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 23 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 24 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 25 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 26 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Like someone drowning , Sarah saw her past life in detail ; the filthy room in which she 'd grown up with no privacy and no sanitation , the painful joints on Ma 's fingers from too much sewing , Paddy 's brawls , and the incessant noise and smell of Turnmill Street . |
| 30 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |