Example sentences of "[verb] up in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 3 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 4 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 5 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 6 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 7 | He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club . |
| 8 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 11 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 12 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 13 | Once a cheerleader at the University of Texas , she looks like an innocent suburban housewife unknowingly mixed up in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics . |
| 14 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 15 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 16 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 17 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 18 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 19 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 20 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 21 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 22 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 23 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 24 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 25 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 26 | When Jed drew up in the alley behind Mitch 's place , he saw an oil-lamp glowing in the kitchen window . |
| 27 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 28 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 29 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 30 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |