Example sentences of "[verb] up with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 3 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 4 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 5 | ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ? |
| 6 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 7 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 8 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | This is a branch of the Association devoted to the more senior ex-Manorians who would like to meet up with old friends , but who find it difficult to join in with the annual reunions . |
| 13 | For the travellers it 's a chance to meet up with old friends and enjoy themselves . |
| 14 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 15 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 16 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 17 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I chewed my lunchtime sandwich thoroughly , being careful not to get my trachea clogged up with cream cheese . |
| 22 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 23 | The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments . |
| 24 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 25 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 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 ’ . |
| 29 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 30 | On the other hand , there was the reflection that all universities , through their senates — composed of academics drawn from all subjects taught in the university — were responsible for keeping a self-critical eye on their own work , and it was time in this sense that the public sector caught up with established university practice . |