Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 2 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 4 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |
| 5 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 6 | The next day or the day after perhaps , when they had talked a lot about the commune project , Mary had come up with Bella 's name . |
| 7 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |
| 8 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 9 | Even if it meant disturbing her , waking her so that she cried when put down again , she must be lifted up in Alice 's arms , held close to her and kissed goodbye . |
| 10 | Such instruments can generally best be looked up in Halsbury 's Statutory Instruments . |
| 11 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 12 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 13 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 14 | Ahead of the appointment of Gerstner , Smith put together a report that listed 10 key things that the new man at IBM should do , and his report has been picked up by Barron 's magazine . |
| 15 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 16 | Another girl caught up in Roman 's potent charisma ? |
| 17 | The music blared out around them — Beatles songs from the Sixties — and for a brief space of time Rachel forgot her worries and allowed herself to be caught up in Belinda 's simple pleasures . |
| 18 | Bruce Weber 's arty portrait of the now-dead jazzman Chet Baker is hopelessly pretentious — all black and white fashion shots and sun-burst silhouettes — but all this is forgotten as you get caught up in Baker 's sad , pathetic life story . |
| 19 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
| 20 | As assistant manager of powerplant quality , he was caught up in Rolls-Royce 's efforts to penetrate the civil aircraft business with the Merlin . |
| 21 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 22 | She would have grown up with Marguerite 's calm influence around her ; she would have been more French than English . |
| 23 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 24 | Michael Lee had grown up in London 's dockland at a time when prejudice towards the Chinese seemed to be at a height — and especially half-caste Chinese children , and there were few enough of those . |
| 25 | There are several black children who have grown up in children 's homes with purely white staff , and others who have been placed with white families who are isolated geographically and have no contact with black people ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 134 ) . |
| 26 | General Electric CF 700 aft fan turbojets 4,315 lb thrust — flat rated up to I.S.A. + 15 ° T.B.O. : 1,800 hours . |
| 27 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 28 | Alejandro , fed up with Raimundo 's laziness and his exorbitant whining demands , was put in such a good mood when he saw the black eye that he agreed that Perdita could take over the breaking of little Tero . |
| 29 | ‘ I was fed up with Durham 's sponsors signing has-beens , just for their names , ’ said Raine . |
| 30 | America , fed up with Bush 's neglect of the economy and lack of human touch , voted for the ‘ change ’ the charismatic Clinton constantly promised . |