Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone told us she 'd got hold of the name of some MP who 's mixed up in child porn . |
| 2 | Was he mixed up in cocaine smuggling ? |
| 3 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 4 | Greer gearing up for champion status |
| 5 | However , the increase in SSA enrolments was 24 per cent , only just keeping up with population growth , whereas in the final matriculation year ( Standard Ten ) , the increase was 327 per cent . |
| 6 | Etna-watchers slip up on lava flow |
| 7 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 8 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 9 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 10 | This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination . |
| 11 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 12 | Johnson moved up from youth coach to take temporary charge . |
| 13 | All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form , with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating , so that the assessors ' valuation of livestock — and household effects — may well have been frankly notional . |
| 14 | What had he come up to Jubilee Wood for ? |
| 15 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 16 | A potential trainer has to be at least 18 , educated up to GCSE standard in maths and English , plus a science subject , and be fit — as they walk many miles a day in all weathers . |
| 17 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 18 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 19 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 20 | It 's the legacy of the amazing squad built up by club owner Silvio Burlusconi , the Italian tycoon for whom money is no object . |
| 21 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 22 | They are present in house dust ; they stick to clothing , carpets , towels and bedlinen ; they can also be picked up in garden soil , on unwashed vegetables and salads , or from contact with someone who already has worms . |
| 23 | The call , apparently between Mr Major and his next-door neighbour , Chancellor Kenneth Clarke , was picked up by news reporter , Adam Mynott . |
| 24 | Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells , then leave to come up to room temperature . |
| 25 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 26 | But they may be booked up for Christmas day . |
| 27 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 28 | The idea is to try and develop a steady build up of air play before the record is released so that on the week of release there is a good demand for the record and this reflects in your chart position . |
| 29 | A mains or 12V powered unit that will detect the build up of fuel gas plus many other types of smoke . |
| 30 | Declaring global warming , caused by the build up of carbon dioxide and other gases , to be ‘ the most worrisome ’ of all environmental threats , Dr Cunningham promised a major long-term programme of energy conservation . |