Example sentences of "get [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [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 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 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 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 5 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 9 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 10 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 11 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 14 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 17 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 18 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 21 | She said well I should imagine that 's what 's happened the paper work here has got muddled up with the other . |
| 22 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 23 | Must of got blocked up with a bit of muck . |
| 24 | Got held up on a bit of business . ’ |
| 25 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 26 | Now why those places should be funny , and we have to apologise to all the people who live there , but it does sound funny , and they er they just er the trials and tribulations they have when their own rather complex personal lives get mixed up with the play they 're doing . |
| 27 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 28 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 29 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 30 | Into this stalks Zoltan Szanto ( Niels Arestrup ) , as a Hungarian conductor who believes the power of music should ease all the squabbles until he gets caught up in the soap opera himself , beginning an affair with the opera 's star Karin Anderson ( Glenn Close ) . |