Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 2 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 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 | He staggered back , half tripped on the cockpit coaming , scrambled up to the deck and then to the ship 's rail . |
| 5 | This is why Kiddi-Proof has come up with the Ovensafe and Grillsafe — covers in heat-retardant plastic which can be clipped on to almost any make of appliance . |
| 6 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 7 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 8 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 9 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 10 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 13 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 14 | The cage was lifted up by the crane and stopped when we were 160 feet above the ground . |
| 15 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 16 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 17 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 18 | These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 23 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 24 | The bang as it bounces may be picked up by a hearing-aid or by a vibrator , thus avoiding that sticky mess on top of the stove . |
| 25 | Larvae may also be picked up by the bloodstream and carried to other organs ; and some might reach the anterior mesenteric artery , which is the main source of blood to the intestines . |
| 26 | No p what Peter said was , if it has n't been picked up by the lab and it 's an internal problem , it can be dealt with internally . |
| 27 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 28 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 29 | The new relaxed Downing Street style was instantly picked up by the Cabinet and greatly appreciated . |
| 30 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |