Example sentences of "[verb] up in a [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 9 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 10 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 11 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 12 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 13 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 14 | So children grow up in an atmosphere of harassment and greater poverty . ’ |
| 15 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 16 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 17 | But many still fear and dislike the idea of ending up in a home . |
| 18 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 19 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 20 | Hathor Hamilton of Devon , a 64-year-old member of Moyra Hopley 's class , sustained a broken elbow and lacerations when she was hit by an overtaking car last October and thrown 12 feet , ending up in a hedge . |
| 21 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 22 | You can be too geriatric to stand up in a boat … and you might quiver a bit . |
| 23 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 24 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 25 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 26 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 27 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 28 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 29 | Article 16 allows extension to arbitrations and ‘ other matters within the jurisdiction of special courts ’ ; it is not at all clear how this latter phrase is to be picked up in a declaration , as different states ( of origin and of destination ) may establish specialist courts for a variety of purposes , including adjudication on matters plainly civil or commercial in nature . |
| 30 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |