Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 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 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 4 | It all added up to a hotel bedroom . |
| 5 | ‘ As an example , we have come up with a de-sulphurization system to prevent damage to natural gas pipelines and a North Sea gas rig has had the equipment installed . |
| 6 | After long deliberations , the UIAA 's Alpinism Committee has come up with a draft code of practice which , while largely common sense , has the welcome bonus of strong presumption in favour of conservation . |
| 7 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 8 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 9 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 10 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 11 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 14 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 15 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 16 | Penelope arrived muffled up in a duffel coat and with her hair wild and untidy . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing unusual really , although of course it 's not usual to get yourself smashed up in a car accident in the first place . |
| 18 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 19 | The French then developed a sexpartite vault , wherein the intermediate pier is carried up as a vaulting shaft to carry a rib which transfers the vaulting compartment into six . |
| 20 | After all it 's not every day you get caught up in a paradigm shift . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 22 | There he 's caught up in a gas attack , and when he returns to Swindon he suffers recurring asthma . |
| 23 | Caught up in a wishing well |
| 24 | Jane Henson turned into Miss THUGGY when she spotted Wilkins and Wontkins , two Muppet-style characters caught up in a copyright row , at a toy trade fair in the New York Hilton . |
| 25 | Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying . |
| 26 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 27 | But note that you must use fittings and valves which comply with the water byelaws and that if the cold supply is connected up to a washing machine from the rising main , this will be at mains pressure while the hot supply ( if there is one ) will be at a lower pressure . |
| 28 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 29 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 30 | We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside . |