Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 27 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 28 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 29 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 30 | Ever since he 'd turned up in her bedroom several nights before , he really had become her shadow , staying constantly by her side . |