Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 2 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 3 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Strong come on hurry up with those words |
| 11 | And they 've come up with several suggestions . |
| 12 | In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype . |
| 13 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 14 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 15 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 16 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 17 | Their livelihoods are important and it is entirely right that their expertise , built up over many years , should be made available to reprocess nuclear fuel when appropriate . |
| 18 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 19 | The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference , to be held in Brazil in the same year . |
| 20 | For each subject , use one set of notes only , built up from many sources and giving facts , opinions , questions and controversies . |
| 21 | C ) Outgoing mail to be picked up from all Divisions and GWM/MAR/CMG out–trays before 10.00am and at 11.00 am , 1.00 pm , 3.45 pm ( 2.45 pm — Friday ) . |
| 22 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 23 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 24 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 26 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 27 | ‘ Is there something , ’ George asked icily , ‘ about the atmosphere of this place that causes you to come up with such expressions ? |
| 28 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 29 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 30 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |