Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ? |
| 4 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 9 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And I chewed my lunchtime sandwich thoroughly , being careful not to get my trachea clogged up with cream cheese . |
| 12 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 13 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
| 14 | It has come up with five colour TXT systems each powered by a 40MHz Texas Instruments Inc TMS340 processor . |
| 15 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 16 | These guitars represent total design philosophies , not marketing exercises where a manufacturer or ad agency has tried to hoodwink us into believing the instrument really is different because its headstock is slightly more rounded than the Ibanez — or whatever other triviality they 've come up with that month . |
| 17 | This is where we 've come up with critical application software . |
| 18 | ELITE , creators of those lovable cavemen Joe and Mac , have come up with another cartoon romp in the form of Dragon 's Lair on the SNES . |
| 19 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 20 | A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | To celebrate the November Presidential election two galleries have come up with national election year shows . |
| 22 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 23 | I know that Jacqueline , you may well get it right , but you have come up with hard work sometime do n't you ? |
| 24 | After lots of thought I 've come up with this solution and hope it will be helpful to others . |
| 25 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 26 | Guy 's come up with this patent for a new system from America which cuts turn-around time in the garment-sewing factories by some amazing percentage and — ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 28 | She and her companion had come up under full sail to my table . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |