Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , he got his face mixed up with the spokes of — |
| 2 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 3 | Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti . |
| 4 | I I 've got mixed up with the names of the things . |
| 5 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |
| 6 | The unit can include as many net-armed and as many club-armed Night Goblins as you wish , and they can be mixed up in the ranks as you please . |
| 7 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 8 | In the ward you are lying there in pain , drugged up to the eyeballs . |
| 9 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 10 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 11 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 12 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 13 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 14 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 15 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 16 | A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison . |
| 17 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 18 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 19 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 20 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 21 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 22 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 23 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 24 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 25 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 26 | Keeping up with the Joneses |
| 27 | Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss . ’ |
| 28 | If anything , hardware is n't keeping up with the demands of the kinds of software he 'd like to see . |
| 29 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 30 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |