Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 3 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 4 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 5 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 6 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 7 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 8 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 9 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 10 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 11 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 12 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |
| 13 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 14 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 15 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 16 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 17 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 18 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 19 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 20 | But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end . |
| 21 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 22 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 23 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 24 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 25 | Even the Press box got swept up in the occasion and there were roars of approval from the local scribes when Craig Brewster opened the scoring in the first-half and Dalziel applied the coup de grace in the second . |
| 26 | I ironed my big net here and it meant to go up in the window there . |
| 27 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 28 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 29 | Pascoe saw a face he knew locked up in the face of a stranger . |
| 30 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |