Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 3 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 4 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 5 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 9 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 10 | He was an experienced member of a well-drilled team , but was killed when he became tangled up with a colleague . |
| 11 | Penelope arrived muffled up in a duffel coat and with her hair wild and untidy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 14 | Lads who spent the working day in jeans got dressed up in a suit to go out for the night . |
| 15 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 16 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 17 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 18 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 19 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 20 | Ten years before that , ICI had come up with a world first with its Steam Naphtha reforming Process for the production of ammonia , methanol , hydrogen and town gas . |
| 21 | Senga slept curled up in a ball , her long-fingered hand splayed across her cheek . |
| 22 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 23 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 24 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 25 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 26 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 27 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 28 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 29 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 30 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |