Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , he got his face mixed up with the spokes of —
2 All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money .
3 Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti .
4 I I 've got mixed up with the names of the things .
5 I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month .
6 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 .
7 As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed .
8 In the ward you are lying there in pain , drugged up to the eyeballs .
9 This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour .
10 From the urgency of new single ‘ Fight ’ to the Snowboy-fuelled groove of ‘ Lucky Fellow ’ , McKoy have come up with the goods .
11 and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods
12 At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster .
13 Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) .
14 Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson .
15 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
16 Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves .
17 As the coffin was lifted up on the shoulders of the men , Carmella stood and reached out her hand to touch its wood at Joey 's shoulder .
18 A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand .
19 Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories .
20 I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me .
21 Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away .
22 Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful .
23 You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ .
24 ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank .
25 She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter .
26 The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser .
27 The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers .
28 Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point .
29 If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes .
30 If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes .
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