Example sentences of "get [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 've got mixed up with the names of the things . |
| 2 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 3 | on now , I think it 's a bit like factory inspectors , and I talk from experience on this , er th o i me , everything gets cleaned up before the inspectors |
| 4 | Mother gets wrapped up in the kids and the poor old husband gets left on his ownio . ’ |
| 5 | Who are you , you 're not the Queen ’ , and I used to sit down , get pulled up by the girls : ‘ Come on . ’ |
| 6 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 8 | Did it get caught up in the branches ? ’ |
| 9 | Patrick Swayze is a doc with oedipal jitters who goes to India to find himself , only to get caught up in the struggles of the native people earning a crust on the heaving streets of Calcutta . |
| 10 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |
| 11 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 12 | Mendoros 's enthusiasm for aviation dates , he says , from his childhood in the Sudan , when he used to get taken up in the helicopters servicing Italian-operated drilling rigs . |