Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 2 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 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 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 5 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 6 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 7 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 11 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 12 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 13 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 14 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 15 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 16 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 17 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 18 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 19 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 20 | Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts . |
| 21 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 22 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 23 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 24 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 25 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 26 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 27 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 28 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 29 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 30 | East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer . |