Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 … |
| 4 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 5 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 6 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 20 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 22 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 27 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |