Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 3 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 4 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
| 5 | He assumes the identity of the dead man , apparently an undercover FBI agent , gets mixed up with an FBI sting operation AND a seductive mystery woman of independent means . |
| 6 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 7 | The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates . |
| 8 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 9 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 10 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 11 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 12 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 13 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 14 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 15 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 16 | Beyond the final lock , the canal joined a river , opening up into a very wide stretch of water , bounded by pleasant meadows and with scores of mooring places , most of them occupied . |
| 17 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 18 | Her world was opening up with a vengeance . |
| 19 | CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break . |
| 20 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 22 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 23 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 24 | ‘ Margaret , how did your chum Richard take my being rung up by a patient ? ’ |
| 25 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 26 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 27 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 28 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 29 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 30 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |