Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 6 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 9 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 10 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 11 | Indications of the lasting potential of workwear comes with the news that the traditional companies are now opening up to new design suggestions coming from the UK . |
| 12 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 13 | He watched her go down Newcastle Place with the bird cage in her arms , and pity rose up like yeasty dough in his chest , restricting his breath . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Your army may include up to eight Steam Tanks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We know that the syntactic rules of SSL turn up in their written Swedish and so by analogy , children who grow up with Signed Swedish should instead be influenced to use the correct word order . |
| 19 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 20 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 21 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 22 | LUNCHTIME in Britain was never an occasion to whet the appetite of the serious private eater : most decent restaurants were cluttered up with expense-account company clodhoppers , making maximum use of their up-market luncheon vouchers . |
| 23 | In the old days , before the Leader , thought Davide , the law swelled up through chronic feuding and the only respite came in the prelude to the great feast days , when families had no more money to pay lawyers ' services because the priests were taking it instead . |
| 24 | And I chewed my lunchtime sandwich thoroughly , being careful not to get my trachea clogged up with cream cheese . |
| 25 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 26 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 27 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 28 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 29 | But this has not been matched by an increased commitment to capital expenditure and Mr Jordan expressed concern that while most member companies had weathered the recession ‘ surviving companies are probably not investing sufficiently in keeping up with technological progress ’ . |
| 30 | PORTS TOP UP ON FIVE STAR |