Example sentences of "[verb] up in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 5 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 6 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 7 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 8 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 11 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 12 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 13 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 14 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 15 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In most of these countries there 's now a price tag on these toys cum- objets d'art and they are even ending up in rarefied art galleries . |
| 18 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 19 | cloacal curl coiled up in bloodied alabaster , |
| 20 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 21 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 22 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 23 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 24 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 25 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 26 | The effects of new policies would only be felt when the next analysis was made when , presumably , such effects would be picked up in observable data . |
| 27 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 28 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 29 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 30 | Aircraft parks are arranged in themes , warbirds all park together , homebuilts are parked up in another area , antiques and classics have a section all to themselves and so on . |