Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [det] [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 | ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ? |
| 4 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 5 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 8 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 9 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 10 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 11 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 12 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 15 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 16 | The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events . |
| 17 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 18 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 19 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 20 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 21 | Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe . |
| 22 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 23 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 25 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 26 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 27 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 28 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 29 | A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship . |
| 30 | Hurry up with that tea there , Maggie ! |