Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 7 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 … |
| 9 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 10 | ‘ Margaret , how did your chum Richard take my being rung up by a patient ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 13 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 14 | The industry of Gijón and Asturias followed , and shortly afterwards the airfield at Asturias , perched up on a hill . |
| 15 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 16 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 17 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 18 | The spectacular aerial shots , Prof Burland 's lightly worn erudition , the delicious dollops of Verdi and Rossini and the ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek commentary added up to a ‘ Carry on Leaning ’ that I felt obliged to watch all over again . |
| 19 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 20 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 21 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
| 22 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 23 | It all added up to a hotel bedroom . |
| 24 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 25 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 27 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 28 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 29 | They 've come up with a solar-powered , infrared-pulsating , microchip bee backpack . |
| 30 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |