Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl .
2 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 .
3 It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster .
7 You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that .
8 His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame .
9 A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt .
10 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 .
11 He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Pascoe saw a face he knew locked up in the face of a stranger .
18 So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive .
19 The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat .
20 Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world .
21 One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family .
22 I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church .
23 This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo .
24 He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease .
25 Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time .
26 Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it .
27 There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo .
28 The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s .
29 Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith .
30 He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career .
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