Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 2 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 3 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 4 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 5 | When the story was picked up in the press in January , Clinton dismissed the allegations as " old stories " and " trash " , but insisted that he would not discuss the details of his 17-year marriage . |
| 6 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 7 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 8 | But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 . |
| 9 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 10 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 11 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 12 | The old office boy , Alistair soon saw , was curled up in a sleeping-bag under a work table in the outer room . |
| 13 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 14 | Curled up in a corner of the sofa , Alex took the Concorde ticket out of her bag once again , and set it on the cushions beside her . |
| 15 | ‘ My grandmother says when they 're curled up in a circle with their tails in their mouths , that 's a symbol of eternity , ’ said Emily . |
| 16 | She was sitting curled up in the armchair like Mrs. Mounce , nursing a final cup of cold Nescafé . |
| 17 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 18 | Matilda happened to be curled up in an arm-chair in the corner , totally absorbed in a book . |
| 19 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 20 | Or was he , like so many millions of others , caught up in a swell of mindless sentiment which hardly knew what it was doing ? |
| 21 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 22 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 23 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 24 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 25 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 26 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 27 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 28 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 29 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 30 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |