Example sentences of "[verb] up in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 4 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 5 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 6 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 7 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If they start boxing young they never get caught up in that scene . ’ |
| 13 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
| 14 | You like to confuse people , and then you suddenly charge at them and trample them underfoot while they 're caught up in that confusion . |
| 15 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 16 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 17 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |
| 18 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 19 | Drinking is caught up in this debate because of the health and social problems associated with alcohol abuse — even though these problems have probably always affected a small minority of people in most societies . |
| 20 | There is a network of disadvantage in society in terms of income , access to housing , educational and employment opportunities , etc. , and large numbers of families caught up in this network are relatively deprived and vulnerable to breakdown . |
| 21 | Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period , with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs . |
| 22 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 23 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 24 | The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy , or cupid , caught up in some act of Southern atavism . |
| 25 | Lisa suddenly had the sensation of being caught up in some kind of nightmare . |
| 26 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 27 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 28 | Now this means that this part of the globe the bit nearest to the moon will have more than it 's fair share of gravity because it 's got the gravity of the earth and it 's got the gravity of the moon pulling all the sea which will cause the erm sea to bulge up in this region . |
| 29 | Coverage is further restricted because the same titles tend to crop up in each paper . |
| 30 | A 33-1 chance is unlikely to crop up in this week 's top event , the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes at Ascot on Saturday , which sees the re-match between Selkirk and Marling . |