Example sentences of "get [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 7 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 8 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 11 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She said well I should imagine that 's what 's happened the paper work here has got muddled up with the other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 22 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 23 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 24 | They too get caught up in the underworld of youth subcultures , where the peer groups become more important ( and possibly more caring ) than the family . |
| 25 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 26 | There , in the mouth of the stream where it meets the sea and its sweetness gets mixed up with the salt , a fisherman I used to know set his traps . |
| 27 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 28 | When we get fed up with the worship , the vicar , the organist , or other elements of church life , we should remember that justification by faith in the fellowship means accepting that our differences are as important to God as our similarities . |
| 29 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 30 | The thought of getting hung up with the council care people was horrific . |