Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 joins up with the Mill Avon . ’ |
| 3 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 4 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 5 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 6 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 7 | Mixed up with the mob |
| 8 | Now why those places should be funny , and we have to apologise to all the people who live there , but it does sound funny , and they er they just er the trials and tribulations they have when their own rather complex personal lives get mixed up with the play they 're doing . |
| 9 | We used to get mixed up with the fight . |
| 10 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 11 | If the surfaces were cleaned by sand blasting , that concrete dust would be mixed up with the sand used in the cleaning ; but when the surfaces are cleaned with dry ice , the pellets sublime away into easily filtered gas . |
| 12 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 13 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 14 | Much of the controversy is actually mixed up with the nation 's political history . |
| 15 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 16 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 17 | There , in the mouth of the stream where it meets the sea and its sweetness gets mixed up with the salt , a fisherman I used to know set his traps . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 20 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 21 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 22 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 23 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 24 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |