Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 4 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 7 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 8 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 9 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 10 | Aircraft parks are arranged in themes , warbirds all park together , homebuilts are parked up in another area , antiques and classics have a section all to themselves and so on . |
| 11 | Politicians and administrators were ill-equipped to handle the problems of working men caught up in bloody enterprise for which they were not responsible . |
| 12 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 13 | If they start boxing young they never get caught up in that scene . ’ |
| 14 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
| 15 | You like to confuse people , and then you suddenly charge at them and trample them underfoot while they 're caught up in that confusion . |
| 16 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 17 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |
| 18 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 19 | Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays . |
| 20 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |
| 21 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 22 | Drinking is caught up in this debate because of the health and social problems associated with alcohol abuse — even though these problems have probably always affected a small minority of people in most societies . |
| 23 | There is a network of disadvantage in society in terms of income , access to housing , educational and employment opportunities , etc. , and large numbers of families caught up in this network are relatively deprived and vulnerable to breakdown . |
| 24 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 25 | The DIA was worried about DEA personnel getting caught up in secret intelligence missions , he explained . |
| 26 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 27 | The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy , or cupid , caught up in some act of Southern atavism . |
| 28 | Lisa suddenly had the sensation of being caught up in some kind of nightmare . |
| 29 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 30 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |