Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up in " in BNC.
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1 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
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 | ‘ When I was out last night I got mixed up in something . |
5 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
6 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
7 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
8 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
9 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
10 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
11 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
15 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
16 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
17 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
18 | They got caught up in fighting . |
19 | What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering . |
20 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
21 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
22 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
23 | After the war the problem of gravitational collapse was largely forgotten as most scientists became caught up in what happens on the scale of the atom and its nucleus . |
24 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
25 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
26 | He tried setting up in Geneva and Canada before ending up in San Diego . |
27 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |