Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 2 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 3 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 4 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 5 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 6 | ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ? |
| 7 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 8 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 9 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 10 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 11 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 12 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 13 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 15 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 16 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 17 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 18 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 19 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 20 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 21 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 22 | Mrs Bottomley , who is planning to close or merge up to 15 London hospitals , said she was ‘ most impressed ’ with her mother 's treatment . |
| 23 | Station Officer Eric Warrior , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said anyone entering the building could easily fall up to 15 metres into the basement of the premises . |
| 24 | However , there are many new avenues opening up for qualified staff in areas which have not traditionally been associated with nursing . |
| 25 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 26 | Indications of the lasting potential of workwear comes with the news that the traditional companies are now opening up to new design suggestions coming from the UK . |
| 27 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 28 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 29 | Bulldozers were used to clear 1.6 million ha for Gmelina arborea ( Verbenaceae ) , which can yield up to 30 m 3 per ha per annum , but the best stands yielded only 14 t , the scheme overall only 3–6 t . |
| 30 | One cow will yield up to 23 litres ( 5gal ) of milk and 4½ litres ( 1gal ) should make 450g ( 1lb ) of cheese . |