Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 2 | The unit can include as many net-armed and as many club-armed Night Goblins as you wish , and they can be mixed up in the ranks as you please . |
| 3 | Once a cheerleader at the University of Texas , she looks like an innocent suburban housewife unknowingly mixed up in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics . |
| 4 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club . |
| 7 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 8 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 9 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 10 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 11 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 13 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 14 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 15 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 16 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 17 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 18 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 19 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 20 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 21 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |
| 22 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 23 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 24 | Excessive perspiration in poorly ventilated footwear invites infection which can also be picked up in the changing rooms of public swimming pools or sports centres . |
| 25 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 26 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 27 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
| 28 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 29 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 30 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |